According to the continuous detection of the tauren raptor druids, almost all members of the Kokar Centaur clan in the backwater oasis were dispatched this time. Like locusts, they swept all the way, following the animals that migrated to the mountains to the west of the Barrens due to the dry season. Come in groups.
In the southwest of the Backwater Oasis and the south of the Sweetwater Oasis, the Centaur left a force of about 1,000 to 3,000 people, continuously harassing and containing the Thornback Wild Boar territory.
Judging from the detected situation, the Thornback Wild Boars were forced to dispatch a hundreds of wild boar cavalry troops, but it was obvious that the centaurs had more flexible mobility.
In the vast Agamagog region, wild boar villages are distributed irregularly. They neither settle near water sources nor choose settlements based on the richness of grassland vegetation. Instead, they choose settlements based on the legendary wild boar demigod. The vines formed by the blood spilled on the Barrens when Agamaggan died in battle are the settlements.
So the huge vines have become the most conspicuous symbol of the wild boar people. The centaurs only need to look for the vines to definitely find the wild boar village. However, the thornback wild boar people obviously lack sufficient organizational skills and flexible response capabilities. The large army was held back by the Centaur guerrillas who were far smaller than themselves.
The thornback quilboar could not pose a sufficient threat to the centaurs, but the steel-bristle quilboar was engaged in a seemingly endless battle with the Dustwind harpy in Razor Ridge. An assembled army had already set off from Thorn Ridge. , crossed the Raging River and headed for Razor Ridge to support.
So just like that, the Kokal centaur swaggered into the Sweetwater Oasis, and the tauren immediately withdrew the small group of sentinels from Glory Post.
Prell led his team and followed the tauren of Malakajin on a large-scale hunt throughout the Giant Wood Valley. The migrating forest reindeer herds, blue sheep, short-tailed gray rabbits and even forest frogs were all present. became their target.
There is also a group of tauren who went into the mountains and forests to hunt cliff panthers, clouded leopards, moonlit tigers and other beasts. Because the goblins who sold food to the tauren probably knew that the tauren did not have enough gold coins to pay, so they requested to use valuable furs in exchange.
In addition to food, the tauren also purchased a batch of salt from the goblins. They did not purchase weapons because the tauren themselves had experienced blacksmiths.
The entire Apalaye camp, Malakajin, as the main living area of tauren civilians, has now been turned into a large workshop serving the war. The valley is filled with the smell of blood and burnt fur. It is the tauren leatherworkers. They are tanning leather.
The members of Prell's team were all assigned a tailor-made leather armor, except for Prell, because he had a sophisticated dwarf armor. This plate armor forged by dwarves was once the envy of the tauren. But that's just envy. After all, the armor worn by the dwarves cannot be worn by the tauren.
Originally, the way warriors wore armor was to have an innermost layer lined with cloth, an outer layer of leather armor, and then another outer layer of chain armor or plate armor. However, the tauren had limited supplies, and Prell had plate armor, so he wore leather armor. It can no longer be provided.
The leather armor given to Belga and others was extremely crude. Two pieces of cut leather were simply dried, dehaired and tanned. They were then punched with thick hemp ropes and tied together at the front and back. The belt was a piece of leather threaded through a copper ring. Cloth straps, no protection for both arms.
This is the armor that the tauren had to rush to make. They are already trying their best to make equipment for every warrior who is about to embark on the battlefield.
There is no shortage of weapons for the tauren. After all, they have been fighting centaurs for so many years, and their weapons are well prepared, but their armor is relatively lacking.
Then a large number of tauren began to gather towards the Grimtotem outpost. They planned to rely on the mountain pass to defend the centaurs. After all, the terrain here was slightly more favorable to the tauren who lacked mobility.
Both sides were preparing nervously and actively. The tired Tauren Raptor Druids transformed again and again and took off for reconnaissance, while the Tauren also reinforced the mountain pass's defenses again and again.
The climate in the Barrens is such that the rainy season and the dry season alternate. After the second rainy season comes, there will be a brief cooling. The climate is like the African savanna, so wars here are likely to break out at any time of the year.
So there is no use of troops in autumn, because there are no obvious changes in the four seasons here.
Prell was assigned to the 172nd Squad by Elias Hardhoof, the supreme commander of the Tauren during the war. In addition to Belgar, Snu and Lestalen, Pandaren who volunteered were also in this squad, including
He recruited the Huaniu warrior Herta Lei Ge from the original 16th team, as well as several new recruits.
Among them were the first tauren that Prell knew, the heifer hunter Antana Windwhisper, and the object of her admiration, the novice warrior Tiwidi Blackmane who had also just grown up, whom Prell admired.
one of those.
This time the tauren gathered a large force of more than 2,000 people. For a tribe with a population of only more than 50,000, this ratio was quite astonishing. But compared to the centaurs on the opposite side, which numbered at least 7,000, this number seemed insignificant.
Prell was appointed as the captain of the 172nd Squad. Judging from the composition of the members, it was obvious that Elias Hardhoof had put a lot of thought into it. Judging from the numbers at the back of the squad, Prell's main
The mission is actually to help train new recruits.
This 10-man team has an alarmingly high ratio of spellcasters. Prell is a paladin, Belga is a shaman, Snu is a traditional mage, Lestalen is barely a rare mage with racial characteristics, and Pandaren
He is a special Brewmaster monk, and the rest are three warriors and two archers. Except for Herta Lei Ge, the other four are all recruits participating in the battle for the first time.
In other words, Elias Hardhoof has placed certain expectations on Prell. His main task is to protect these recruits who are on the battlefield for the first time, and he specially sent Herta Lei Ge, Preel.
An old acquaintance of mine, as a veteran, he provides battlefield experience guidance to the novices.
As the atmosphere of war became more and more intense, Elias summoned all the squadron leaders and squad leaders to conduct a pre-war mission arrangement. Since the 150th squad, he has mainly been responsible for auxiliary work, that is, training new recruits.
Prell's 172nd Squadron was assigned to the north of the mountain pass, assisting the 4th Squadron and responsible for defending this area. Along the huge mountain pass at the junction of the Stonetalon Mountains and the Barrens, the tauren have built a long
Wooden fence wall.
On the fifth day after gathering from the Grimtotem outpost and rushing to the defensive front, a tauren raptor druid flew back crookedly. He threw himself toward the ground exhausted, and could no longer maintain his transformed state in mid-air.
He fell down and said weakly: "Glory Post was destroyed!"
In other words, at the centaur's marching speed, the war will break out in at most one day. Looking at the raptor druid who was carried to the tent to rest, Prell narrowed his eyes.
In the afternoon of the next day, the Centaur army passed through the burned-to-scorched Glory Post and appeared in everyone's sight. More than a dozen Centaur scouts observed it at close range and were shot hard by the Tauren with hard bows. After retreating, he retreated and camped far away.
This was the first time that Prell had seen such an arrogant army. The Centaur camp was several miles away, and even at night the faint light of the camp fire could be seen in the distance.
He felt that this was really the centaur using his racial talents to bully others. The centaur was obviously far more agile and flexible than the tall, bulky tauren who lacked cavalry.
Within the Tauren's defenses, the tense atmosphere began to spread. Prell was not worried. If the war progressed to the point where the 172nd Squadron was required to take over, there would be no need to fight. He would definitely evacuate with his squad members.
But Antana and others who went to the front line for the first time were so nervous that they even started to tremble, so Prell laughed and said: "Hey, I said don't be afraid, ask Herta, there is nothing scary about centaurs. , they just rely on their own ability to run. In terms of individual combat effectiveness and tactics, they are no match for us. No matter what happens, we can still hold on to the end!"
Herta Lei Ge, the big flowered cow, was heartless. He also laughed and said: "The most common tactic used by centaurs. I once told you that they are just a group of wild horses that can run. A group of them can only run far. They're just cowards who didn't want to shoot. As long as they get close to us, they are no match at all!"
Naturally, he would not say that centaurs rarely give others a chance to get close, especially centaur archers, who are horse archers in the true sense.
Antana and other recruits did not take courage because of Prell and Herta's comfort. On the contrary, the Centaur launched a fierce attack on the Minotaur defense line the next day. Even in the afternoon, Prell's third Team 172 was assigned the first task: assisting in transporting the wounded.
The centaurs' shooting skills are amazing. They often aim at the soft and unprotected parts of the tauren's eye sockets, throat and ribs from a long distance, and shoot continuously with horn bows.
The entire rear of the camp was filled with the tragic wails of the wounded. Antana and Tiwidi Blackmane carried back the second wounded. The poor tauren warrior was hit by arrows in both eye sockets at the same time. Before he could be lifted off, he collapsed. He screamed and died.
Antana's face turned pale. She had always felt that she did not lack courage and courage, otherwise she would not have broken into the unfamiliar windy valley alone for the adult trial. But the battlefield obviously did not rely on courage and courage.
Then the heifer was so stimulated by the pungent smell of blood that she suddenly covered her mouth and seemed to want to spit it out. Tiwidi Blackmane quickly took care of her. Prell came over and said, "Spit it out, spit it out." It feels much better when I come out!”
The long-range archers on both sides were still shooting at each other, suppressing each other. When the centaurs finally tired, the crossbow shooting that lasted for most of the day finally became sparse and reduced.
Then the centaurs launched a charge, but were stubbornly stopped by the tauren warriors. A melee mixed with arrows and spells finally ended when the sun was about to set.
In the next few days, the two sides fought a tug-of-war. The Tauren, who gradually adapted to the Centaur style of play, always maintained their defense at this line.
So the daily battle process consisted of archers from both sides shooting at each other. When the archers were tired, they would exchange spells at close range and the centaurs charging towards them. In front of the wooden fence, brutal fights took place one after another.