Although the people in the old ranger army felt that bringing in new recruits was a bit inconvenient, they didn't have any emotions. However, quite a few people in the mage army were not in a good mood. There were only 180 places to enter the front line, and they actually had fierce disputes with each other.
compete.
Most of these mages did not want to stay at the very back, the Five Elements Formation guarding the waist of the gourd. They argued and argued, and in the end the leading officer had to ask them to draw lots.
How could an elegant mage be so bellicose? This was something Yulin Blood Eagle had never expected.
During the exercise, the ranger mage proposed various hypothetical ways and means of attack for the orcs to attack. After most of the officers heard that Yulin Blood Eagle said that the dwarves were good at dealing with hellfire, they strongly requested that at least 50 Wildhammer dwarf griffin knights come over to help.
to cope with possible emergencies.
They think that other demons are fine, but stone-like things like Hellfire and Voidwalker are troublesome. Because they are almost immune to disease and poison, it will be very troublesome if the number of orcs summoned is too large.
The Featherwood Blood Eagle agreed to the request and sent a griffon bodyguard to speak to Mezdra. Without saying a word, Mezdra sent 100 Wildhammer dwarf griffin knights over.
The Wildhammer dwarf griffin knight took the griffin to rest a mile behind the little gourd belly. After several days of transporting the child back and forth, the griffin was very tired. Although he had basically recovered after two days of rest, he could still recover if he rested for a while longer.
It's best to just let them rest for a while first.
Halfway through the drill, the rangers and mages thought that three emergency rescue legal teams should be set up in each of the three Five Elements formations in the Big Calabash Belly.
They believed that they faced more orcs this time, and the ranger veterans were also responsible for leading the new recruits. If the rescue failed, the mage emergency team could cast a magic shield on the new recruits, which could block fatal blows and buy time for the veterans to rescue the new recruits.
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Or if the formation was cracked by the orcs, the large-area covering magic of the three mage teams would buy enough time for everyone to evacuate. Regarding this, Yulin Blood Eagle thought about it and agreed.
In this way, there are only 330 mages left in the defense of the small gourd belly. However, for a defense area defending such a narrow area, more than 300 mages are really luxurious and luxurious.
He believed that the requirement to set up three mage squads in each formation must have been set up by the veteran rangers who could not withstand the strong demands of the warlike mages. However, he also admitted that the deployment of these veteran rangers and mages with rich combat experience
The formation was much better and more comprehensive than what he had arranged himself.
Anyway, this time the power is delegated, so they can deploy it however they want! He will only participate in learning, how to arrange troops, how to retreat, how to cover, how to attack and pursue, how to cooperate with various types of arms, etc.
Yulin Blood Eagle has been participating in rehearsals between various formations, and has benefited a lot during this period. Two days is really not a lot of time, it is only enough for the new recruits and veterans to get along better, and there is no talk.
There is no amount of cooperation, let alone tacit understanding.
In the early morning of the third day, thick dew still condensed on the grass blades, and the soldiers began to rehearse again. About an hour later, the owl ranger came to report that the orc forwards would arrive in about an hour.
The officers asked the soldiers to rest in place for twenty minutes according to the assigned places. After 20 minutes, they began to apply poison to the iron needles and caltrops. After applying the poison, each ranger was responsible for placing them in the place nearest to him.
Tribulus does not need to be placed in advance. After applying the poison, it is only used in emergencies. The poison needles are not completely used up. Only two-thirds of all poison needles are used.
The rangers said that if the orcs broke through this line of defense, they could retreat a certain distance and find a suitable location where they could set up their formation again without being chased by the orcs and fleeing.
The formation of the veterans was much smarter than that of the new recruits. It was as dense as it should be and sparse as it should be. It was well-proportioned without appearing complicated and messy.
Veterans say that too much complexity is not a good thing. When soldiers are in critical situations in battle, they often have no time to think so much, so they easily step into the traps they have set. It is even worse if it is messy, which makes it impossible to form effective command.
, soldiers are easily at a loss in the formation.
Because this time we are fighting the enemy in the Five Elements Formation, there is no need for a too complicated design. If you are setting up a formation to block the enemy when retreating, and there are no people of your own in the formation, it will need to be more complicated and messy.
An hour later, the orcs reached a place 1 kilometer away from the Big Calabash Belly. Naturally, the vanguard of five or six hundred people came first, and when they saw the elves waiting in formation, they hurriedly retreated.
This group of orcs who came from the swamp did not have many cavalry. The 600-man vanguard only had about 20 wolf riders. They ran back first to report to the main force, while the others slowly retreated for a long distance.
Defense in place.
Not long after, a large army of orcs arrived. The movement speed of this group of orcs was not very slow. According to the report of the griffin knight, their method of destroying the mine and fishing net array was very simple and crude.
They were not reluctant to use soul fragments like the Wolf Cavalry. They used them, and they used them quite a lot. Every time they encountered a mine array, they summoned one or several demons called Void Walkers to detonate them in the mine array.
mines, and then the orc infantry collected all the fishing nets and threw them into the roadside swamp mire.
Of course, along the way, they also saw many traces of detours by the wolf cavalry. The orc leader who led the team was still laughing at the stupidity of the wolf cavalry. Now there were 6 void walkers in their team following them.
When they arrived at Big Calabash Belly and saw so many elves, they were surprised. Their first feeling was that the Wolf Cavalry Regiment was doomed! Because except for traces of battle on the ground, not a single orc or warg was found.
The corpses of the orcs who died in battle had long been sunk by the elves into the deep mire on the roadside, and the dead wargs were skinned and roasted by the elves to feed to their pets.
Although these new poisons are powerful, after being heated on fire for a long time, the toxins in them will be decomposed and turned into non-toxic edible meat. Although the elves still dare not eat them, dire wolves, cheetahs, tigers, and owls can
Eat them all.
Nearly a thousand dead wargs were eaten by the pets. However, the visceral elves still did not dare to feed them, so they were packed and sunk under the pond.
As for whether there would be a plague in the future, the Featherwood Blood Eagle didn't care. Anyway, this battle would take several years, and he only needed to transport the Wildhammer dwarves to Xuntland. Then there would be no plague here for him.
Said it didn't have much impact.
Moreover, the Elven Expeditionary Corps also wants to march towards Arasi, and they are not willing to stay in Proudmoore to participate in the defense of Menethil. If a plague does occur, maybe this section of the plague-infected area will help.