Chapter 42 Ambush 1(1/2)
On the second day after the Crystal Fort army surrounded Armani, the actual leader of the Burning Legion, "Fraudster", Kiljadan, also got furious at his command center outside the Jungle of Noda Hill.
"Who can tell me!"
Kiljadan roared loudly at the dozens of generals who were trembling in front of him, "Why do humans appear under the city of Gilness!"
A sneer appeared on Kiljadan's handsome face, "Can they fall from the sky?"
The race of Kiljadan is Annell, a demon with a strong body and a thick iron tail. With his sharp claws waving in the air and his hill-like body, his roar was still very powerful. At least, the dozen or so demon generals half-kneeled in front of him were trembling slightly.
Seeing his subordinates trembling in front of their power, Kiljadan was very satisfied. "I don't need your love, respect or worship, I just need your fear." This is the motto of every demon-level superior.
The demon general's reaction made Kiljadan secretly proud. However, when his eyes fell on the last row of Death Knights, this pride turned into anger.
"General Arses, look at your appearance, you seem to have any insight?"
Kiljadan stared at the Death Knight who always held his head high even though he was half kneeling. His huge eyes were shining with malicious light, "Stand up and speak."
With Kiljaden's treacherousness, as long as the Death Knight Arses could not give any insightful insights, he would definitely take advantage of the situation and teach this thorn who was disobedient to discipline.
The name of Kiljadan also reveals the identity of the Death Knight. There is only one Death Knight named Arces in the entire Jinglan Continent. He is the former Prince Lord Lordaeron who hated Jinglan's indigenous people more than the demon lord Satan, and led the Scourge Legion to capture his motherland.
"Sir, look."
Kiljaden asked about Arses's opinion, and the latter stood up and walked to the sand table in the corner of the big tent, picked up the wooden stick on the side, and pointed to a point on the sand table, "This is the entrance to the Hengduan Mountains, the boundary between our control area and the crystal stone castle."
The wooden stick slid on the sand table, "This is Yongge Forest, 80 kilometers away from the entrance of the Hengduan Mountains."
In conjunction with Arses's explanation, the slender wooden stick slid continuously on the sand table several times, "This is the Altlan Mountains, one hundred and twenty kilometers away from the Yongge Forest."
"This is the Silver Pine Forest, right next to the Altlank Mountains."
"This is the Elvin Forest, 75 kilometers away from the Silver Pine Forest. After walking through the Elvin Forest for a few hours, it is the first city of Gilness, where the human army appears."
When he said this, Arses remained silent. He was giving his colleagues time to think.
"General Arces, do you mean that the human army was protected by the Yongge Forest, the Ultrarank Mountains, the Silver Pine Forest, and the Elvin Forest, and finally appeared outside the city of Gilness?"
Although Kiljaden hated Alces very much, he still admired his vision and ability. Hearing Alces say this, he quickly understood his thoughts.
"Well... the probability of humans being discovered is indeed much less."
Kiljadan held his chin with his right claw, "But there were our scouts over the occupied area for 24 hours to monitor! Could it be that they were all blind? They actually missed an army of tens of thousands of people in such a vast area between the Hengduan Mountains and the Yongge Forest, between the Yongge Forest and the Altran Mountains, between the Silver Song Forest and the Gilnis City?"
Kiljaden obviously doubted Arses's view.
"Sir, twenty-four-hour monitoring is good, but the scouts dispatched at night are only one-quarter of the daytime."
Arses, with gray hair and gray eyes, is still an iconic expressionless face. "In addition, if humans rob and kill our scouts, from discovering the scouts missing to sending patrols to search, this period is enough for humans to hide in the forest or in the deep mountains."
The scouts of the Burning Legion are usually gargoyles and winged demons, and they are shifted every six hours. Arthur led 1,900 adventurers and 10,000 wolf cavalry to raid Kyrgyz City to take advantage of this time difference. In order to avoid being discovered early by the scouts of the Burning Legion, Arthur did not even bring the Dragon Knight and the Troll Bat Knight, and relied entirely on the Iron Man, Laser Bird and Thunderbolt Fire and other servants to kill the scouts of the Burning Legion.
"Humans are indeed cunning."
After listening to Artes' analysis, Kiljaden understood that if humans had planned everything, it would be difficult for them to find their own side. "They have used all aspects! Alas!"
Kiljadin sighed deeply, "After all, our army is not strong enough."
"Okay! It's no point in pursuing how humans appear outside Gilness now. Let's talk about how to strengthen the defense of the occupied areas."
Kiljadan said, waving his right claw, "Get up."
"Sir, the dwarves and orcs are all attacking, and our main force is entangled by the night elves again..."
A fearful demon king said with a bitter face, "Our army no longer has any extra troops."
"Well? No one soldier can be transferred out? Doesn't Durothal still have 50,000 mobile troops?"
Kiljadin said with some anger. He held tens of millions of soldiers in his hand but could only watch thousands of enemies rushing in his territory. This feeling was like seeing others insulting their girlfriends unscrupulously but powerless... It was very humiliating.
"Sir, the orcs suddenly got to know each other. They used the fleet of humans to transport supplies to transport 20,000 centaurs from the sea, and 30,000 of the 50,000 mobile troops were chasing these 20,000 centaurs."
The Demon King replied.
"What about the remaining 20,000?"
Kiljadan asked with a gloomy face.
"Sir, the humans in the Stranglethorn Valley and the Burning Wasteland received some news and led tens of thousands of troops to kill them. Another twenty thousand troops were confronting them."
"Is this how?"
Kiljadin suddenly stood up and roared at his subordinates, "What do you mean is to let me watch humans come and go in my territory?"
"Sir, forgive me!"
Kiljadan suddenly got angry and made the demon generals tremble, and he quickly knelt down and beg for mercy.
"Forget it, it's not your fault."
Kiljadan sat back on the luxurious throne with all kinds of gems, and said to the Death Knight, "General Alsser, what do you think?"
"Sir, as far as I know, Arthur Hawke's Crystal Fortress is extremely short of labor. He risked his siege of being surrounded by our army, just to seize human slaves."
Arses' analysis is reasonable, "Once he grabs enough population, he will naturally retreat. When he fights head-on with our army, the only benefit will be the night elves. Arthur will not do such stupid things as making wedding dresses for others. My opinion is that if he wants to grab people, let him snatch them, anyway, we don't lack that little slave."
Arses changed his tone, "But Armani City has hoarded most of our army's supplies and has to save them."
Armani City is hundreds of kilometers away from the Noda Hill jungle, and is a fortress city with high walls and thick walls. The purpose of humans in Azeroth was to prevent night elves.
The Burning Legion deployed 20,000 elite troops in Armani City, including 3,000-level gargoyles, 4,000-level zombies, 2,000-level foul ghouls, 5,000-level 2, Maga, 3,000-level crypt demons, 2,000-level 5,000-level evil gods and 1,000-level 1,000-level kulun demons. The strength of these 20,000 garrisons is at least equivalent to three orc division groups.
Arses and every demon present knew that the army of Crystal Fortress was never able to capture this city. It was just that the sensitive location of Armani City and the status of the Burning Legion's logistics base forced the superiors of the Burning Legion to send troops to rescue.
"Agenal obeys the order!"
Kiljadan said loudly after pondering for dozens of seconds.
"Sir, please give me instructions."
The Lord of the Abyss, who was pointed to the name, stepped forward and said in a deep voice.
"You lead the 17th, 23rd, and 27th Divisions to rescue Armani City, and be sure to drive away those hateful lower creatures!"
The Guards Division is the most elite unit in the Burning Legion, all composed of demons. Kiljadan drew three Guards Divisions from the reserve team to deal with Arthur, which shows how much he valued Arthur.
Thirty thousand undead in Pocket Valley were wiped out, and another 20,000 soldiers were lost on the banks of Mandra Canyon and the Baishui River. In the end, 100,000 orcs arrived at the Parker Empire by sea under the eyes of the Burning Legion... Kilgardan already regarded Arthur as an equal opponent, rather than a fly that could be pinched to death at any time.
If possible, Kiljadan would definitely send 300,000 troops to attack, instead of 30,000. Unfortunately, Kiljadan had only 30,000 mobile troops. The other four million troops were all one carrot and one pit, and an unexpected situation would likely lead to a collapse of the entire line.
Since the attack was launched on December 18 last year, the Burning Legion has been entangled with the Night Elf for half a month. Both sides of the battle tried their best. The Burning Legion could no longer mobilize a unit. In addition to concentrating all soldiers to resist step by step, the Night Elf even mobilized one million civilians with strong strength.
Don't have too many. As long as an army of 100,000 people emerges from behind the Burning Legion, the only one waiting for the Burning Legion will be defeated. This is also the reason why Kiljadan must drive away Arthur. If the night elves squeeze out a group of troops from their teeth to support Arthur, then the trouble will be great.
"Abide by the order!"
Argenard, who is the same tribe as Kiljaden, said confidently, "I will definitely let the despicable human beings come and go!"
"Okay! Very good!"
Kiljaden was overjoyed, "I am worthy of being Lord Sargeras's most loyal subordinate! Let humans tremble in our anger!"
"As you wish, sir!"
Argenard said with his head held high and his chest held high.
"Haha! I guess humans immediately ran away in shame when they heard Argenard's name!"
"Where are you! All the leaders of Kiljadan are good at leading!"
"Humans are just some jumping clowns! Not to worry! According to my opinion, Lord Argenard might as well just break into the Crystal Fort!"
"Yes! That's it! As long as you can breathe, you will kill them all! Offend the dignity of the Burning Legion, there is only one way to die!"
Seeing Kiljadan turn anger into joy, the demons also compliment each other in a slight way.
But neither they nor Kiljaden noticed the strange smile on the corner of Arses's mouth.
Two days later, twenty kilometers away from Armani City.
Even though it was clear that Arthur could not capture the strong city of Armani, Argenard ordered 30,000 demons to march in a hurry and walk a hundred kilometers in one day and one night.
After driving away several squads of troll bat knights, Argenard ordered the troops to slow down and sent several brigades to patrol the front, back and left and right of the formation.
Argenard was not timid. This was entirely because Arthur never fought with his enemies in a dignified manner. Sneak attacks, fire attacks, use terrain... to achieve the greatest results at the lowest cost. This is probably Arthur's tactical thinking.
If Argenard carelessly doesn't take Arthur seriously, Constantine, the third chief of staff of the Scourge, is the best example.
The careful Argenard made a reward. Thousands of orc wolves rushed out of the forests on both sides of the army and ran away from afar.
"It's true that's not as expected by the adults."
Argenard's deputy, Brutrees, the Lord of the Abyss, complimented, "The cunning human beings are really ambushing."
"If our army is not prepared, these thousands of orcs and wolf cavalry can indeed put our army in chaos."
Argenard stared at the orc troops who were leaving, sneered, "But our army is prepared, these dirty orcs can only escape honestly!"
"Master, a master! Compared to you, that young boy Arthur Hawk is the stars beside the bright moon and the grass beside the big tree! Look! Isn't this a shame!"
Brutrees said flatteringly.
"hehe."
Argenard didn't say anything. But looking at the lust on his face, you know that Brutrees' compliment was about him.
To be continued...