The attack of the Burning Legion army was faster than anyone expected.
After Archimonde was teleported, as cannon fodder for the vanguard, the undead Scourge army immediately swarmed towards Goldrinn Temple.
It's still a sea of ghouls, a lot of abominations, crypt demons, and necromancers, but this time, there's another unit in the attacking army: banshees.
From Essenna Glades to Goldrinn Temple, the terrain changes from a valley to a section of rolling hills, and there is only one curved path upwards.
At the end of the trail is a cone-shaped canyon. The coalition's position is right in front of the canyon, and the slope of the trail makes it difficult to defend.
The battle started in the middle of the afternoon, and the ghouls still charged forward, rushing along the trail quickly like a swarm of army ants.
Thrall was in charge of the command on the front line. He raised the Doomhammer, and then the orcs and troll warriors pushed down the wood that had been prepared.
These wooden logs were made by cutting down trees immediately after the orc army arrived at Goldrinn Temple. Dozens of logs whose branches were simply cut off and with large iron awls nailed by craftsmen were placed down the slope.
Roll away.
The dozens of ghouls rushing at the front were immediately crushed by the rushing wood. A large area was immediately cleared on the slope, but soon a group of abominations rushed up and stopped them with their tyrannical bodies.
These trees pushed them into the valley below the slope.
Then these abominations replaced the ghouls and rushed to the front of the team. Thrall signaled to the goblin Gazlowe not far away, so Gazlowe pressed the detonator next to him.
The explosives planted in advance on the north side of the slope exploded, and countless rubbles were blown down, hitting the abominations and the ghouls and crypt demons following them, and piled up into a hill in the center of the slope path. At least there were
Hundreds of abominations, ghouls, and crypt demons were cut off as they charged forward.
Continuous musketry sounded. It was the kobold musketeers who were in the trenches in front of the position who opened fire. Then the tauren, orc archers, and troll harpooneers also started shooting and throwing.
As a heavy ground attack unit created by the undead natural disaster, the abominations are huge in size and move a little slowly, but they have rough skin and thick flesh. Prell saw a few abominations rushing at the front, covered with muskets and crossbows.
The body was in tatters and was originally stitched together from corpses. The carrion began to fall off piece by piece, and disgusting green liquid dripped continuously, but it still rushed forward tenaciously.
And relying on the cover of these abominations, the crypt demons behind kept approaching, and then began to dig into the ground to prepare for drilling down. Then a series of explosions sounded, and the splashing soil covered the entire slope.
Those were landmines laid by the goblins in advance. Compared with the grenades of the kobold grenadiers, the goblins were more skilled and skillful in playing with gunpowder, and the power of the mines was also greater. Therefore, after this wave of attacks, they were blocked by gravel.
It becomes two stages, and the enemies in front are basically eliminated.
On the slope, the green plague virus spread as the corpses of abominations and ghouls exploded, and the ground was filled with rising green gas.
As for the pile of rubble blocking the way, several abominations were frantically tearing it apart, and a few crypt demons got into the ground and started digging tunnels along the side of the trail near the valley, trying to remove the rubble underneath the hill.
The ground collapsed, clearing a path for passage.
The Tiger Crouching Cannon deployed in the middle of the position began to exert its power. This was a battle plan that Prell and other leaders had discussed and formulated in advance. The goblins brought by Gazlowe were masters of blasting, and they blew up the accumulated rubble.
The hill was originally within the calculations of the goblins.
Therefore, the range and landing point of the Tiger Crouching Cannon can basically cover the entire area around the gravel hill. In terms of gunpowder, Gazlowe has found a like-minded person like Prell, and the goblins are very generous.
A batch of goblin gunpowder was provided to the Kingdom of Thresh, which was more powerful than the gunpowder made by the Bronzebeard Dwarves and Dark Iron Dwarves, but was certainly more unstable.
Two consecutive rounds of shelling immediately cleared away all the undead around the gravel hill, and more gravel was shot down, blocking the road tightly.
So the first wave of attacks was repelled by the coalition forces using various means. Then through the telescope, Prell saw a huge fear devil with red wings coming out of the crowd and commanding the ten people who followed him.
A Dreadlord came and readjusted the offensive formation.
"It's Anasseron!" Prell rubbed his eyes. He remembered that these Dread Lords of the Nasrezim race of the Burning Legion belong to a high-level demon group and have always acted as monitors and covert operations in the rear.
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The leader of the Nathrezim race is Tichondrius, but Anasseron appears here, so it is very likely that Tichondrius has been killed by Illidan in Felwood.
Obviously, Anasseron was the frontline commander of this attack. Soon there were two fear devils, one with blue wings and one with gray wings, each commanding an army of undead, and they rushed towards the foot of the mountain one after another.
"Digasel, Markusk?" Prell looked at it with his "eye of observation" for a long time, confirming the name of the two fear devils with blue and gray wings.
The two fear devils did not charge immediately, but first came outside the attack range of the coalition forces and jointly cast the summoning spell. The sky was suddenly filled with black clouds, and a huge fireball fell from the sky, hitting the ground with a bang.
On the hill of gravel halfway up the mountain.
Then a huge hellfire with red flames all over its body emerged from the rubble. Its body was huge, and it looked a bit bigger than the mountain giant of Gruzik.
Hellfire's two rock arms kept pushing outwards, quickly clearing the road. Then the ghouls, abominations, and crypt demons rushed up again, and a team of necromancers followed the banshee and rushed over behind them.
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The huge hellfire summoned by the two fear devils jointly rushed towards the coalition position step by step. The mines laid by the goblins in advance kept exploding at its feet. However, its body only shook a little and the flames seemed to extinguish.
After a while, he still continued to move forward.
Morgan Manbeard had already commanded the Crouching Tiger Cannon to readjust its barrel, and then began to continuously bombard the hellfire.
Since the Battle of Azshara, some Dark Iron Dwarves have been transferred to the artillery team by Prell, specifically responsible for the Crouching Tiger Cannon. These Dark Iron Dwarves are more accurate in artillery, and it seems that the dwarves are more warlike.
There are nearly a hundred Crouching Tiger Cannons. Prell has already brought all the Crouching Tiger Cannons produced by the two major military industrial bases of the Kingdom of Thresh. After three rounds of salvos, the pace of the Hellfire is getting slower and slower.
The flames also disappeared in large areas, and the musketeers also started shooting.
After the hellfire was defeated by the coalition forces with difficulty, the undead army that followed had already rushed up and rushed to the top of the slope path and the edge of the canyon pass.
This is the mouth of a cone-shaped canyon. The coalition's position is located at the other end of the canyon entrance. Behind them is the open Goldrinn Temple.
The orcs and tauren who arrived in advance had already built the first line of defense, but after Prell and others arrived, they dug four more trenches in front of the first line of defense, and Thrall set up another line of defense in front of the trenches.
At this time, due to the continuous advance of the Hellfire, the coalition forces had given up the first line of defense and withdrew towards the trenches, so the kobold musketeers and tiger crouching artillery once again became the protagonists of the battlefield.
The overwhelming volley of muskets fired, and the Tiger Crouching Cannon was also divided into three stages of musket shooting. As for the muskets, the inevitable attack intervals during the Tiger Crouching Cannon shooting were made up by shooters of various races.
The coalition forces used powerful long-range attacks to inflict huge casualties on the Burning Legion's attack, but the battle line was also pushed to the first trench in the face of a steady stream of undead armies.
Gazlowe led a group of goblins, carrying iron cylinders that looked like rocket-propelled grenade launchers, and launched controllable landmines one after another.
So far, the coalition forces have not suffered any casualties, because in comparison, the undead army's long-range attack capabilities are limited, and their magic troops have not had time to enter the magic range.
Among them, the goblins caused a lot of damage. They laid a large number of mines and hidden mines along the slope road in advance, and used an almost luxurious explosion to eliminate a large number of ghouls, abominations and goblins.
Cave devil.
The controllable mines launched by Gazlowe's team are, to put it bluntly, a time bomb developed by goblins. They were originally used by goblins to dig mines, and their power is quite astonishing.
Under the continuous attacks of muskets, artillery, crossbowmen, and javelinmen, Gazlowi led the team to continuously fire at least three hundred controllable mines, and then successive explosions continued.
The explosion was so spectacular that it seemed like a carpet bombing. A large amount of soil and gravel were blown up into the sky and fell to the ground with a rustling sound.
Prell shook his head, shook off the mud all over his body, and shouted to the musketeers who emerged from the mud around him: "Keep shooting, don't stop!"
The battlefield was filled with gunpowder smoke, mud, and gravel, and the formation of the undead army on the opposite side could no longer be seen clearly. However, in such a scene, the musketeers no longer needed to aim and shoot one by one, they only needed to keep pulling the trigger forward.
Halfway up the canyon on both sides of the position, Lao Chen led the kobold grenadiers to emerge and continuously threw grenades towards the battlefield below.
They were condescending and did not need to deliberately aim. They threw several rounds of grenades as fast as possible. Prell suddenly raised his head and shouted: "Old Chen!"
Naturally, the Pandaren couldn't hear it. The explosions on the battlefield had covered up all the sounds. He seemed to be aware of the danger. He suddenly raised his head and saw a blue-winged Dread Lord suddenly flying into the air.
He rushed towards the position halfway up the mountain where he was.
This fear devil named Digasel was very cunning. He followed behind the undead army all the way, using his abominable body as a cover, and quietly approached the foot of the mountain on the west side of the coalition position.
He probably planned to find a way to sneak attack on the rear from there, but the sudden appearance of Lao Chen and dozens of kobold grenadiers caught his attention, so he took advantage of the smoke rising from the battlefield and was blown up by the explosion.
Mud suddenly jumped into the air and rushed towards Lao Chen's position.