Chapter Thirty Karak - Karak is Karak of Karak
"This is Karak Karak." Vared on a mountain about fifteen kilometers away from Karak Karak, wearing armor and cloak, looked ahead, said such words, and then snapped his fingers.
"Yes, master." Then, the new chief of the Imperial Guard beside Vared, was also his first... The servant Katie immediately handed over the crystal lens and the monocular telescope of the tortoiseshell lens.
"Yeah." After taking the telescope, Vared adjusted the angle, then stepped on a rock, leaned forward, closed his left eye, and raised the telescope to the front of his right eye and looked over. That way, I wished someone kicked him from behind and kicked him down. Of course, Katie, who was very well-behaved and trained by Vared, naturally would not do such a thing.
Of course, this is actually in all senses of pretending. First, with Valed's current ability, let alone fifteen kilometers, even if it is 150 kilometers, as long as nothing gets in sight, you can see clearly. Second, Valed has already known the information of Karak-Karak. No matter how badly it is, there are vultures flying in the sky watching. Isn't it much more than pretending to be a telescope?
But Vared is Vared after all, the Grand Duke Sylvania who likes to make airs the most. And his opponent... Don't say that he underestimates people, if the dwarf Supreme King in Karakne is now in charge of the enemy Thorin Grubild, or a weird thing like the white dwarf Gramlindale, even if there are few enemies in the city, he wouldn't be so careless.
But who made Krieg, a dwarf prince in Karak, who is worthless, take charge? This prince is young and has no reputation. If it were before, Vared might have thought of telling him to "not underestimate the enemy". But now, haha.
Apart from the Dwarf Prince Krieg, the only one who has some skills on the Dwarf side is the Dwarf Ranger leader and winemaking master Bagman. This Dwarf Ranger who is old and has two tricks.
But it’s not that Valed was not fond of him—he had no qualifications to organize and command large-scale battles. Dwarf rangers prefer piecemeal guerrilla tactics and small-scale encounters than head-on battles.
In fact, during these days, the dwarf rangers wearing light chain armor shirts, long swords, and iron crossbows were like rats, using the help of underground tunnel networks to ramble around and attack the undead troops desperately.
However, the most important artillery positions and logistics supply camps were all seen by Valed. He was also the top commander of the old war. He set up camps and arranged defense methods that were not something that Bagman, a second-rate mercenary leader, could deal with. In the past few days, the dwarf ranger troops suffered heavy casualties, but none of the tactical goals set were achieved. In the end, Bagman had no choice but to have no choice. This drunken ranger leader with a big rosacea, cursed and gave up his surprise attack tactics against the undead troops and focused on defending the city.
"It's okay! Prince Karak Karak is Karak among Karak. It is the world's number one fortress. We have thousands of fortress cannons, three-layer defense system inside and outside, and an army of 80,000 people who have recently gathered here. And the enemy - those undead only have a small number of artillery, and they cannot capture this place. The final result must be the victory of our dwarves." Bagman, like this, against the dwarves Prince Krig, this boy who is likely to inherit the honor of the Supreme King of the Dwarves, is at ease.
However, despite his words, Krieg was still frowning: "Although there are 80,000 soldiers to fight, there are not many elite soldiers. And Karak Karak is the largest fortress in the Dwarf Kingdom. Its area is so large that there are so many places to guard, and the eighty thousand troops are probably not enough.
In addition, although Karak Karak is known as the number one fortress in the Dwarf Kingdom, it has not been attacked for thousands of years due to its geographical location. Therefore, many guard posts and fortress cannons are inappropriate. I went to those fortress yesterday to see them, and some of them have not been used for dozens or hundreds of years, or even hundreds of years, and have been repaired. They have been rusted and cannot be used."
By listening to the prince's words and thinking about things, you can know that he is not the weak person that Valed thinks. On the contrary, he is a young man who does not follow the trend, has his own opinions and is talented.
After hearing Prince Krieg's words, the dwarf ranger Bagman also felt that this was not as simple as he imagined. However, when he heard Krieg's speech was a little pessimistic, he comforted him again - of course, it was not as full as he said before:
"This is really a big problem. Karak Karak had not been attacked before, so military supplies usually tend to be Karak Ansou. This is also impossible. Fortunately, there is a complete military production system inside the fortress, and the underground tunnel network also connects high-quality iron ore and coal mine veins. As long as there is enough time, we can produce enough artillery.
As for the military matter, we can see it this way - the mountains nearly 200 meters below the Karak-Karak are all cliffs, and there is not even a way to climb up. Only the central part of the mountain is where tunnels lead to the foot of the mountain and directly enter the underground tunnel network. With this terrain alone, you can compare to the 500,000 army."
Krieger's expression was much better after hearing Bagmann say this. But then he continued: "In addition to these problems, I think there is another more important and difficult problem to solve. That is, the food problem."
"What's wrong? Isn't there enough food?" Bagman was anxious when he heard what he said.
"Originally, we could support it for a while. But before that, a lot of dwarf refugees came from Karak Hull and the surrounding area. Although this added to Karak Karak's garrison, it also magnified our food problems a lot."
"This...whether is this, collecting underground fungus plants?"
"That little thing is not enough to eat." Krieg shook his head, and then said to Bagman solemnly: "Mr. Bagman! I know your identity, your ideals, and what wine means to you. But you have also seen our current situation, so I decided to implement a food rationing system and a ban on alcohol during the siege of the Dead Army. Please understand."
Hearing Krieg say this, Bagman's face suddenly collapsed. A hint of laughter and crying expression was on his black and red face. But in the end, he could not resist Krieg's firm and unquestionable look, sighed, and said, "You really want my life." After that, he stopped talking, probably because he had acquiesced.
"Thank you for understanding. Also, the dwarfs love drinking. In addition to you, there are many soldiers and civilians. It's okay to have wine brewed now. But it won't work next time. Please give me more effort and convince them."
Bagman's smile was even more bitter, but he had to nod and agreed. Seeing Bagman agreeing, Krieg relaxed and smiled again.
After having an idea about this "big question", the current military leaders of the two Karak-Karak were preparing to further study how to act. A cold that was enough to make people freeze suddenly came, followed by a hehehe, extremely ironic, extremely proud, with an absolute sense of superiority and contempt.
"Can you do it? Just two humble and incompetent dwarves. Guard the greatest city of this dwarves. Can you do it just by you two?"
"Evil Demon?! What are your ideas?!" Bagman immediately took out his one-handed crossbow, held the hilt of his sword with his right hand, and glanced around with wide eyes.
However, in the darkness, nothing...
"Yes, of course, can. But don't understand it wrong. It's not that we can, but that we have an army of 80,000, our entire race of dwarves. We can do this, we can guard Karak-Karak. We can also defeat all the evil races that threaten our survival, no matter how strong the opponent is."
"Oh? Oh... Gu once heard that a famous saying among dwarves is popular, 'A dwarves army is like a carefully crafted chain armor shirt. Every warrior is a hard iron ring, linked together through duties, honor and loyalty. And like a chain armor shirt, as long as the link is still strong, there is no blow to pass through it.' Today, when you say this, Gu has gained some new understanding of this sentence."
A dwarf army is like a carefully crafted chain armor shirt, each warrior is a hard iron ring, linked together by duties, honor and loyalty. And, like a chain armor shirt, as long as the link remains strong, there is no blow to pass through it.
Neither Bagman nor Krieg spoke, and quietly sensed the invisible evil around him, secretly alerting him.
Chapter completed!