When Prell said goodbye to Naralex, he noticed that Serfendis's expression seemed to be much more relaxed. Anna Feiye was still invisible. This female night elf druid seemed to have nothing but mentor.
She's not interested in anything.
Naralex asked Galaxra to see him off, so Prell led the team out of the magic wall of the "natural barrier". As if passing through a water curtain, they reappeared in a place with two people, one big and one small.
Lake cave.
The cave was destroyed by the centaurs and was in disarray. Several kodos were originally hiding and living there, but they were hunted and used as food by the centaurs. Only the remaining kodo skeletons were left by the lake.
After passing through the waterhole where the plesiosaurs lurked, Galaxela was still at the front of the team. The wild boar Amedeo was a little reluctant. In any case, these druids did not treat him as a slave. He even
I thought it would be good to follow that kind night elf and become a servant.
It's a pity that he didn't dare to disobey Prell. After sleeping, eating, and sleeping these days, Amedeo's originally thin body and face seemed to begin to swell again.
Getting closer and closer to the entrance of the cave, Prell noticed that there was more dust on the slippery walls and ground of the cave, and then the dust became more and more. They finally reached the section of the cave where the centaurs once stored food.
This place is about five or six hundred meters away from the entrance of the cave. The stone walls and the roof of the cave are all blackened, and the barely recognizable remains of wooden boxes containing grain that have been burnt to char are spread all over the ground. Even Prell can't help but marvel.
stand up.
At first, he attracted the attention of the centaur guards. The arson was mainly carried out by Belga and others. Prell didn't even have time to take a look at the scene after his team set the fire. He retreated deeper into the cave while fighting with the people who came up.
The centaur guards continued to fight and fight.
The wind blowing from the oasis into the cave spreads the dust from the burned food everywhere, not only inside the cave, but also near the cave entrance.
Prell followed Galaxra out of the cave. The wind blowing in front of him made him feel very comfortable. He opened his arms comfortably and took a deep breath. Then his face changed drastically and he almost vomited.
The smell was so bad! After walking around half a circle after walking out of the cave, Prell couldn't help but slap his chest in disgust.
As far as he could see, the centaurs who once stationed here had cut down most of the trees in the oasis. There were traces of campfires everywhere. Countless bones of various animals were piled up by the lake, and centaurs could be seen everywhere.
of excrement.
The smell of rotting animal meat and centaur excrement were mixed together. The smell was so sour that Lestalen had already vomited it out. Galalax's face was pale. This oasis that was originally full of life was now half-empty.
The people and horses were ruined like this, which made him extremely angry.
Prell even noticed that in the lake in the center of the oasis, there were still several animal carcasses floating with only their heads left, including gazelles, velociraptors, and even giraffes.
The lake water, which was rippling by the wind, gathered these wrecks together. Black blowflies flew around the rotting corpses, and the lake surface was deathly silent.
"This is really...!" Galalaxla was speechless. He decided to report to his mentor after returning, and then began to restore the original appearance of the Sweetwater Oasis.
So Prell said goodbye to Galaxra. He took his team and turned to the north of the oasis, preparing to make a circle and return to the pass of the Stonetalon Mountains from the Forgotten Pool.
Prell didn't know whether the Centaurs had completely evacuated the Sweetwater Oasis area. For safety reasons, he felt that taking a detour was the best option.
Then they walked for a whole day, and the grassland was empty. Not to mention the prey, even the marmots seemed to have disappeared. Needless to say, this was left behind by the centaur army who had lost their food and grass supplies and had no choice but to retreat.
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Furthermore, Prell also discovered that many of the originally sparse large, low trees along the road had been cut down, leaving only bare tree stumps.
The weather was getting hotter and hotter, and when they arrived near the Forgotten Pool, they finally found their first group of prey, a group of wandering gazelles that came to drink water. The number was pitifully small, only about seven or eight.
Amedeo, who was exhausted by the scorching sun, looked at Prell with his eyes wide open. When he saw the gazelles, he became greedy again. However, Prell thought about it and let this small group go.
Prey, decided to have grilled fish for dinner.
Fortunately, the Forgotten Pond was not contaminated by the centaurs. Snu and Belga caught more than ten fish, and everyone finally no longer had to eat dry food.
After resting for a night, the water bladders were refilled with clean water, and Prell led the team towards the Stonetalon Mountains. Amedeo was somewhat reluctant and made a humming sound along the way, but Prell ignored him.
After two rude kicks, the wild boar hurriedly hid any dissatisfaction.
They walked past the razed Glory Outpost and found that there were many corpses of dead centaurs along the way, attracting a large group of carrion vultures, which circled around the corpses and competed for food.
Prell couldn't help but frowned. It was obviously left behind by the evacuating Centaur army. In such hot weather, if it is not dealt with in time, it will easily cause a plague.
So Amedeo had a glorious mission: to collect the centaur corpses and bury them. Under the threat of Prell's dagger, the wild boar had to cover the long pig's mouth with tattered clothes and did the work of the corpse collector.
Work.
As he got closer and closer to the mountain pass, Prell finally breathed a sigh of relief because he found a group of tauren who were also collecting corpses.
So they were immediately cheered by the excited tauren and returned to the temporary camp at the mountain pass. They were greeted by Elias Hardhoof and Gonzalo Swiftwind.
Prell burned the Centaur's food. Although the Raptor Druids did not conduct night reconnaissance, they still found some traces through daytime reconnaissance, and rushed to check it out as soon as the Centaur evacuated the Sweetwater Oasis.
But Gonzalo Xunfeng didn't know that Prell was hiding deep in the cave. He immediately judged that this was definitely a big deal done by Prell!
After telling the tauren military commanders such as Elias Hardhoof the experiences of the past half month in detail, the tauren couldn't help but cheer because Prell did such a good job.
Amidst the cheers of the minotaurs, Belga, Snu and Lestalen all worked hard to puff up their chests, feeling the supreme glory. Even Amedeo, who had been so proud of himself, hummed excitedly.
, his master has such a good reputation with the tauren, and he feels that his face is also shining.
From the first moment he saw the minotaur, Amedeo was trembling all over. In terms of body shape and height, he was much taller than the minotaur, but compared with the minotaur, he became a little bit smaller.
Then the pandaren Chen Stormstout, whom he had not seen for a long time, also squeezed over and said with praise: "You can cut off the enemy's food, Prell has mastered the essence of our pandaren's art of war!"
Amedeo's eyes widened when he suddenly saw a weird panda man! In Prell's eyes, the panda man's black and white body hair, furry palms and cheeks looked very cute. But to other races
, the appearance of the Pandaren is really terrifying!
Chen Stormstout has a cheerful personality. During the time that Prell left, he had already become familiar with the bold and generous tauren. Moreover, he has a smart mind and can learn both goblin and tauren languages.
soon.
After all, there are still tauren who can speak goblin language, so after Prell left, the pandaren continued to learn from those tauren who knew goblin language, and also tried to learn tauren language. Now he can use simple tauren language.
Communicate and communicate with other tauren in language.
Although the centaur army has retreated, the tauren are still stationed at the mountain pass, constantly sending raptor druids for reconnaissance. Based on their many years of experience in fighting the centaurs, the centaurs like to make the illusion of retreat when they cannot attack for a long time.
The tauren were lax in their defenses, so they killed another one with a carbine.
It can be said that the military quality of the tauren was completely learned and cultivated bit by bit in the long war with the centaurs. Perhaps the overall strength is still insufficient, but the tauren can be said to be the most knowledgeable in the world of Azeroth.
How to deal with guerrilla warfare as a race.
After confirming that the Centaur army was indeed retreating to the backwater oasis, the Tauren began to cross the wooden fence and clean the entire battlefield. They collected the corpses left behind by the Centaur army during their hasty retreat one by one, burned them, and buried them. First of all, the Tauren had complied with this.
It has simple battlefield rules, and secondly it has the experience accumulated in the long-term racial war.
They also understood that in such hot weather, if the bodies of the centaur dead were allowed to rot, a small-scale plague would likely break out.
Prell also met his teammates of Team 172 again. One of the tauren warriors had died gloriously in battle, the two rookie hunters each lost an eye, and Huerta Lei Ge, the flower bull, had more cheeks.
There was a scar, his left arm was broken, and he was hanging with a cloth strap. When he saw Prell, this honest tauren warrior gave him a hug with his right arm.
The little black bull warrior Tiwidi had his head wrapped in black mane. Half of his original flowing black mane was cut off by the centaur during the battle. The little cow Antana Windwhisper was taking care of him.
After nearly two months of war, the two novices have matured rapidly, and their eyes are no longer immature. Prell doesn't know whether this is a good thing or a bad thing.
On the second day after returning to the camp, Prell and his friends attended a simple and solemn funeral, and three more seriously injured people died.
According to the information obtained from Herta Lei Ge, in the past two months of the war, the Minotaurs killed nearly 200 people and injured more than 300 people, but the results they achieved were also brilliant and huge. According to estimates,
At least three thousand Centaurs were killed or wounded.
The population base has always been the biggest factor limiting the development of the tauren. Compared with the centaurs, who are extremely fertile and reproductive, the tauren are really at a disadvantage.
On the third day, the Raptor Druids brought back good news: the Centaur garrison that had evacuated the Sweetwater Oasis had joined the troops withdrawing from the front line, but on their way back to the Backwater Oasis, in the northern part of the Agamagog region,
It was jointly attacked by the wild boar clans of Thornback and Steelmane.
Cairn Bloodhoof, the centaur chieftain in the south of the Barrens, finally convinced the thornback quilboar and personally led a force of more than a thousand people to join the battlefield against the centaurs.