fantasy reincarnation of warcraft

Chapter 18 Defensive Battle at Colin Crossing (Changed)

PS: In wor3, the next battle should be the defense of Hearthglen, but the map of wor3 is very different from the map of wow. There is no hearthglen between Andorhal and Stratholme. Hearthglen is located in the Western Plaguelands in wow The top is not on the way at all, and according to the three-way intersection design of the town in wor3, only the Cowling intersection is the most suitable, because the Cowling intersection is just on the road from Andorhal to Stratholme, and just like in the battle, it is also A fork in the road.

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It takes a long distance to go from Andorhal to Stratholme. This distance is almost longer than the span of the Kingdom of Stormwind. This also shows how huge the border of Lordaeron is. The East and West Plaguelands plus Tirisfal Woodland, Silverpine Forest, and Hillsbrad (the map where Orc Mountain and Dalaran are located, the small piece of Orc Mountain was originally an independent country, but the orcs rebelled when they invaded, and it was taken over by Lordaeron. Now only A Duke of Faculest led the old nobles of Okuyama to form a rogue organization called Syndicate to make trouble everywhere).

The five large maps are all their territories. Compared with other human kingdoms, such as the humble Kyrgyzstan, his peninsula is less than half the size of Tirisfal Forest, not to mention the island country of Kul Tiras. The castle is only on that map, and the Kingdom of Stormwind is only about half the size of others.

However, although it looks like a large territory, it is actually just a division of the territory of the human camp. There are many non-human races living in these maps, such as ogres, trolls, kobolds, gnolls, murlocs, etc. There are also a large number of inaccessible forests and mountains. Don’t the Frostwolf orcs just hide in the inaccessible Orc Mountain? A big clan can hide there. It shows that humans can’t completely control their own territory, but in any case, with Lordaeron These creatures are nothing compared to the power of human beings.

Therefore, because of the largest territory and the largest population, Lordaeron has always been the core of the alliance. This situation will continue until the Scourge invades. At that time, with the rise of the Stormwind Kingdom, the center of gravity of the alliance will shift.

It took Alsace and his party two weeks to reach the crossing of Colin. In fact, it would not take such a long time to walk from the main road. Undead are everywhere along the way. What is shocking is that the Cult of the Damned spread the plague almost to the entire eastern part of the kingdom. In fact, not only the food in Andorhal was polluted, but all the farms along the way were ruined by them.

Now, in a few places that have not been infected, people are struggling against the undead. As the future king, Arthas must be responsible for his own people, so the rescue work has delayed him for a long time.

And the most frightening thing is that many barracks were also infected by the plague, and many Lordaeron soldiers became terrible Scourge soldiers. These elite soldiers were very powerful when they were alive, and they were still full of threats after death. Weapons, wearing the armor of his life, some can use muskets, even many guys have awakened their own will, can think alone, can completely replace the psychic to lead the army of the undead, but unfortunately the awakened will still have to be the Lich King Serve.

This makes them increasingly organized and difficult.

As the team gradually approached Stratholme, everyone could feel that Alsace's temper became more and more irritable. He became impulsive, sensitive and irritable, and sometimes even almost brought the entire army into trouble, but The soldiers didn't say anything, because they were the same. More and more human beings turned into monsters, and they felt a lot of anger in their hearts, especially those locals, whose family members had also turned into monsters. If they don't kill their own relatives, some people have become mentally disturbed, and even completely become mentally ill. They talk nonsense all day long, and when they encounter undead, they will rush up to carry out suicide attacks.

As long as there are still sober people who see this army, they can feel that this army is gradually losing its soul.

The only ones who are still sensible are Jaina and Zhang Li. Even the paladins of the Silver Hand have become abnormal.

Jaina had been prepared for a long time. At this time, she was very worried. Looking at Alsace who was about to go crazy, she began to think that this person might really kill the city. She tried hard to remind Alsace to regain his sanity. But Alsace couldn't listen to anything now, and even became angry with Jaina for the first time. He just wanted to rush to Stratholme to kill the dreadlord, and the anger of revenge had corroded his heart.

Jaina didn't know what happened to Arthas, she could only cry alone when the night was dark.

Only Zhang Li knows why all this happened. The invisible dreadlord is emitting an evil spell. This spell will erode the sanity of people who are not firm in their thinking. As long as their mood swings are unstable, such as If emotions like anger and greed exist, they will be affected until they gradually become paranoid people who only know revenge.

In fact, Zhang Li also knows this kind of magic. Now he has gradually mastered the power of N'Zoth's nightmare. This kind of power can also allow him to do this. It is even stronger than the power of nightmare, and can completely control the soul of that person. , the future king of nightmares can even control demigods, which shows how amazing the power of nightmares is.

However, the fear demon king is naturally not using the power of nightmares, and there are many other methods that can also achieve the purpose of bewitching others.

As a three-fork intersection extending in all directions, Colin Crossing is an important transportation hub. Going north, you can reach Quel'Thalas, and you can also reach Stratholme. Going east, you can find Light's Hope Chapel and the Hand of Tyr. Located here is a small town, and what is surprising is that the town has not yet fallen.

This was really good news. Alsace laughed for the first time in several weeks, but after entering the town, they realized that the garrison officers here seemed to be stepping up their training of soldiers, as if they were preparing for war.

As soon as I inquired, I knew that a large group of undead were staring at this place. As an important transportation hub, any force wanted to take control of this place, but it is precisely because this place is very important that Lordaeron stationed here a long time ago. Raised an elite army.

"Your Highness, you came so timely. More and more undead are attacking here. We keep asking for support, but the messengers have no news. Are you ordered to support us?" The garrison officer is really serious I am overjoyed.

"We are just passing by, but we will help you. How many undead are attacking here?" Alsace asked with a frown. Although there were many corpses beside the town, he didn't see many undead.

The garrison officer said: "There are a lot! Your Highness, at least a hundred thousand! They are very smart and only attack here at night. I suspect that someone is leading them behind."

Human vision will be greatly hindered at night, but the undead have no vision at all, so it is very wise to attack at night, and Alsace is very worried.

At this time, Alsace saw a lot of food boxes on one side, his face changed drastically, and he immediately asked the garrison officer: "Sergeant! Where are the things in here! Where did they come from!?"

The garrison officer replied: "Oh, these are the grains brought over from Andorhal. Don't worry, they have already been distributed among the civilians."

"No! Damn it! Kill those civilians! They are all infected!" As soon as Alsace gave the order, all the civilians fell to the ground in pain, and the soldiers of the Vindicator were still hesitating whether to While obeying the order, the civilians who had turned into undead launched an attack.

The only one who had no doubts was naturally the soldiers brought by the prince. They slaughtered the civilians frantically, and cleared the place in a short while, even killing some seemingly uninfected civilians.

"No! I should have thought of it earlier! Those plagues must be spread through food." The garrison officer knelt down and cried bitterly. At this moment, a scout ran over.

He was extremely embarrassed, and loudly reported his discovery: "Report! Your Royal Highness! The undead are attacking! There are at least tens of thousands of them! No! Hundreds of thousands!"

"Jianna! Go to Uther and ask for support! I'll stop these scum!" Alsace immediately reacted, and ordered Jaina unquestionably. Jaina wanted to say something, but in the end she didn't speak. out.

After that, Zhang Li saw what is called the sea of ​​undead. The dense undead crazily attacked the thin city walls of the town. Human soldiers could only rely on artillery and their lives to stop the undead's attack. Fortunately, there were still some city walls that could provide shelter. .

The relentless attack of the undead made the battle heated up from the very beginning.

Alsace went to the front line in person. His mind was out of order. He even thought that he could resist the army of the undead alone. The task of commanding was completely handed over to the garrison officer. , and leave a few troops on standby to rest. Their task is to maintain maximum physical strength, and then go up to replace the tired soldiers when the front line can't hold on, and let those replaced continue to rest. Humans are not undead, physical strength is very limited.

The relationship between humans and dwarves is very close, so there is no lack of powerful firearms in the army, such as these artillery, because they are the double creations of magic and engineering, they are not only powerful, but also the filling speed is not slow, which greatly eases the soldiers. pressure, especially preventing the Stitches from attacking.

The musket is completely useless. That kind of weapon is very good against the living, but it is terrible against the dead. It often flies through the bone frame. Even if a few bones are broken, it is useless. If you are lucky, you may be able to fight Hit the head, but can the army still be full of sharpshooters?Zhang Li complained more than once that these muskets didn't even have a front sight.

In order not to arouse the suspicion of the Dread Demon King, Zhang Li also went up to participate in the battle, but he behaved like an ordinary paladin, wearing a suit of silver hand armor that he did not know where he got, and he fought for a while and rested for a while , as if really tired, the number of kills is not as good as those of the real silver hand paladins.

The battle lasted from afternoon to night, during which Zhang Li also changed positions and rested several times. He also fired cannons, threw kerosene, and fired crossbows. He had a great time and thousands of soldiers died. Nailed here, a large number of undead corpses piled up so high that in the end it was too high, and the corpses covered the city wall, so the humans had to retreat a little and continue to defend on the street. As a result, their defense range was greatly reduced at night. The only person who has not rested is Alsace. He is completely crazy now. He has no signs of fatigue after half a day without rest. This makes Zhang Li have to admire, but he does not admire Alsace, but I admire the Dreadlords, they are indeed experts in manipulating people's minds, until now, Alsace's mind has been completely covered by anger, and he has nothing but revenge in his mind.

At this moment, Zhang Li found that the Dreadlord had quietly withdrawn. It seemed that he had achieved his goal and was about to enter Stratholme to complete the final layout. Soon after, Uther finally brought the Knights of the Silver Hand and many Lordanes with him. Lun soldiers rushed to the scene, and with the assistance of tens of thousands of warriors, the Kaolin intersection was finally rescued.

After completing the meeting, Arthas couldn't wait to go to Stratholme. Medivh also came out and wanted to persuade Arthas to go to Kalimdor again, but after failing, he began to lobby Jaina. He had already known about Medivh from Zhang Li. Jaina, who was about to say something, was very calm, even looking at Medivh with disgust in her eyes, and did not take a large number of Lordaeron refugees to Kalimdor like the original timeline.

In her opinion, this guy appeared in Zhang Li's prophecy, and this guy didn't even know who Zhang Li was. Obviously, Zhang Li's prophet level was higher than his, Zhang Li's prophecy was more authoritative, and he was more No one in authority has said that you must take refuge in Kalimdor, so no one will listen to what you say.

Zhang Li had already told Jaina about the future of Jaina's original timeline. She knew that if she went, not only would Lordaeron lose a large number of soldiers and speed up the invasion of natural disasters, but she would also kill her father. , even in the end she felt that the orcs she could trust would destroy her city and make her betray all relatives, and she could only live in regret all her life. Most of Zhang Li's prophecies had come true, so Jaina trusted him very much. Will not be fooled "again".

As a result, the angry Medivh flew away again. In fact, Medivh was indeed a half-assed prophet. The future he knew was seen in the space debris in Karazhan. Since Sargeras occupied his body at that time, Then the constant use of spells in the mage tower caused the space around Karazhan to be extremely fragile, and it became a place of chaotic space, occupied by various demons and void creatures, and precisely because of becoming distorted, this distorted power It is even possible to map events from other timelines to this space, but most of them are trivial matters, and it is rare to see some major events that affect history. Medivh was lucky enough to see a certain one in a piece of space debris. The future segment of the timeline is the invasion of the Burning Legion. He immediately believed it was true, so he ran around looking for forces to resist the Burning Legion.

In the end, it turns out that the most important force to defeat Archimonde is actually the night elves. Humans and orcs are here to make soy sauce. No matter how much time humans and orcs delay and how many demons you kill, the night elves will eventually sacrifice Archimonde was killed by blowing up his eternal lifespan, so it doesn’t matter whether the time is advanced or delayed. The difference is just how many demons are left after killing Archimonde. Maybe there are no humans and orcs to help clean up the demons. , the night elves have to sacrifice more people and spend more time, but they will win in the end. How many people can there be when Thrall and Jaina have just crossed the sea?Whether there are humans or orcs is actually the same.

Zhang Li watched Medivh leave quietly in the dark. He was very interested in this man-made demigod mage. He didn't know how the high elves and humans created a demigod mage. Judging from the fact that Zhang Li couldn't find it while watching, he is at most like a battery demigod in the Burning Legion. His mental power is still mortal, and only those with more energy are comparable to demigods. Zhang Li guessed that he might be a demigod. The elves separated part of the energy of the Sunwell and put it on the guardians, causing these guardians to have demigod-level energy, but maybe the power of the Sunwell is only enough to separate this demigod, and any more will affect the sun. The well was working, so they didn't make more, otherwise the high elves would have been invincible long ago.

Jaina quietly watched Medivh go away with a worried expression on her face. Zhang Li walked over and said to her, "What? Is there any wavering in what you said to him?"

Jaina shook her head and said, "No, if I listened to him and such a future really happened, then it would be better for me to die directly."

Jaina turned to look at Zhang Li, and begged, "His Royal Highness, I am just worried about Alsace, he is becoming less and less like him, tell me, what will happen to Alsace's future?"

Zhang Li has always avoided this topic, and no one asked him before, but now that it was brought up, he couldn't avoid it, but he had already thought about how to lie.

"Jianna, although I know many things, I am not omnipotent. I just accidentally know a few small fragments of what happened in a certain timeline. I can not see everyone's future clearly, and the future is possible. Changed, the more I reveal, the more unpredictable the future, so Jaina, I am sorry that I don't know the future of Arthas, and everything has changed too much now, and everything I know will be become meaningless."

(End of this chapter)