The Journey of the Demon Hunter

Gandalf did not speak, only smoking his pipe, his face solemn.

As time passed, the sun had completely risen from the horizon, and the vast wilderness was silent, with no orcs, no enemies, and no trace of any animals.

"I found it, I found it!"

The sudden appearance of the sound made Zelin subconsciously put his hand on the hilt. Fortunately, the sound of the orc or other evil creatures was significantly different from that of the Hobbit, so he did not draw the sword out. The master Snitch Bilbo, whom Zelin was still talking to Gandalf just now, suddenly appeared near them in a very worthy way. Not only Zelin, but Gandalf also didn't expect Bilbo's way of playing, and he took a violent pipe.

"Oh, Mr. Baggins, this is not a good time to hide and seek. Where did you go last night?" Gandalf's voice was accompanied by a little reproach. "Hurry up, I will take you to the stables and give you a little The horse is ready, leave quickly and go far away."

"No, listen to me, Orcs, I found the Orcs." Bilbo waved his hand in protest. Hidden underground in the distance! I heard their conversation, it's underground!"

"Underground?" Zelin widened his eyes strangely. "Are they hiding underground?"

"I see!" Gandalf stood up all of a sudden, "Eartheater! Azog got help from the Eartheater! We must gather an army, and the orcs are at our feet! Mr. Baggins, come with you too, we must as soon as possible Take action!"

Chapter 759: Battle of the Five Armies

When the sun climbed to the center of the sky, the great wasteland, which had been silent, suddenly moved.

An army of elves walked out of the river valley city. They formed a huge phalanx. Most of them held bows and arrows. Only a few elves were on the periphery. They used shields and spears to protect the archers from surprise attacks. This phalanx slowly marched towards the direction of the lone mountain, and correspondingly, this was the camp of the dwarves. After the elves appeared, they also began to commotion. Many ballistas are loaded, goats are put on the reins of the chariot, and rows of crossbow arrows are installed in the rocker and crossbow.

For a while, the atmosphere became tense.

"What's the matter? Are the elves going to war with the dwarves? Why?"

Some humans climbed up the city wall and looked at the people below with incomprehension. Bard's son Barn also asked the people around him strangely, but no one could give him the answer. Some people speculate that it is because of gold, while others speculate that it is because of something other humans do not know. The orcs have not yet appeared, and the armies of elves and dwarves have appeared on the hillside between Lone Mountain and River Valley City at the same time, in a tense posture.

"Where is my father?" Barn asked the others.

"I don't know, your father doesn't know where to go this morning. He also called many militiamen. He might be going to discourage the dwarves and elves." Someone replied, but apart from leaving in the morning, the rest It's all speculation.

"Maybe he is going to help the elves. The dwarves are definitely unwilling to continue to pay us the rest of the gold." Some people guessed like this, but no one knew what was going on, even the militiamen, they were told You must stand firm on the wall, not leave at will, and be ready to fight at any time.

"But aren't we going to deal with the orcs?"

Someone raised objections. These survivors from Long Lake Town still remembered the attack on the orcs and gritted their teeth at the same time. It was these orcs who destroyed the town and killed their relatives. On the contrary, it was Smaug. The dragon only destroyed an empty city, a ruin of a town that had been destroyed by the orcs once. Compared with the evil dragon, the skin pain caused by the orcs made these survivors hate even more.

"But where is the orc?"

"Bad and the wizard said that the orcs are coming soon, let us all be prepared. What Bud said is definitely correct. He used to warn us of floods and poisonous fish, and then warned us of evil dragons. Every time he It's all right." Someone admonished others in the crowd, "Bad asked us to prepare to deal with the orcs. There must be his reasons. Let's prepare the weapons as soon as possible, set the arrows, and polish the sword."

The elves marched slowly, and finally stopped at a distance of 100 meters from the river valley city wall. The elves gave way from the middle, and Thranduil rode the elk towards the dwarf’s barracks. Correspondingly, Dyne Ironfoot rode his giant wild boar covered in iron armor towards the elf king.

"Are they going to go to war?"

Bain searched in the crowd, and it didn't take long before he found a familiar person on the observation platform of the nearby city wall. The wizard with two swords on his back was looking at the wasteland north of the Lonely Mountain, as if he hadn't noticed that under the city wall, the two coalition members were about to face each other with their swords.

"The dwarves and the elves are about to go to war! Wizard!" Bain squeezed through the crowd on the street holding weapons and was gathering at his fighting position, ran up the steps to the observation deck, and the sword that Bud gave him was hung on his waist. During the run, the tip of the sword touched the steps and clinked, "Stop them, they are going to fight!"

"Barn?" Zelin raised his eyebrows. "I thought Bud had let you all hide in the chamber? Good boy, go back and let the women and children hide in the chamber. The war is about to begin, we need Ensure safety and order in the city."

"But, but the elves outside... how can they go to war at this time!" Before Barn finished speaking, new changes appeared in the outside situation. Thranduil and Dyne seemed to have a conversation, and then they returned to their army. The Ironfoot Army moved forward a few minutes, and then the dwarven goat cavalry rushed out from behind, rushing straight in the direction where the elf was.

At this time, no one doubted whether the elves and dwarves would start a war, they had already begun.

These dwarven goat cavalry rushed towards the elves unstoppably, like a wave of flying sand rushing towards the golden elves square. Not only can the raised dust be seen clearly in the valley city, but also in the distant crow ridge. I clearly saw the dust splashed by hundreds of cavalry as they charged.

"They are at war!"

Azog stood at the top of Crow Ridge with a bloodthirsty smile on his scarred face. He raised the scimitar on his right arm and ordered the orcs on standby behind him, "It's time for us to act, let them Look, what is war! My army, come on! Show the power of war!"

The bone wings on the stakes behind the pale orcs began to shake, sending a signal to the other orc armies, and the harsh horn sounded through the world. More than a dozen orcs on Crow Ridge blew their horns at the same time, allowing this sound to break into every creature in the wasteland in an instant In the ears.

The earth was trembling, the ground made a muffled sound, and the rubble on the hillside rolled down with the shaking earth. This situation did not last long. The ground exploded under the huge impact, and the soil and gravel fell into the air more than ten meters high, and in the black mud and sand, the huge body of the Eartheater rushed out of the ground. , This worm-like monster burrowed through the ground, crushed the rocks, leaving a huge tunnel with a diameter of more than seven meters on the ground.

In the blink of an eye, ant-hole-like tunnels appeared on the originally flat hillside. An army of orcs, like a black torrent, gushes out from many tunnels, and finally converges into a black river, towards the direction of the solitary mountain, killing the elves and dwarves that are about to collide.

"War!" Azog pointed the blade at Gushan "Destroy them!"

Azog chose a good offensive time. The charging cavalry can't stop, the dwarves will crush the elves' formation, and the dwarves will lose the cover of the cavalry. This is the perfect time for the orcs to join the battlefield. If possible, the orc army will completely surround the two armies and annihilate them outside the city.

But as soon as the orcs appeared, the elven army that hadn't taken any action against the dwarves suddenly began to move. These elves leaned back in pairs, and aisles appeared in the original dense formation. The charging goat cavalry exquisitely controlled the mount, rushing in from the aisle left by the elves, without encountering any elves. The golden elven phalanx seemed to be hit by the sand and waves on the reef, but the waves flowed precisely through the cracks in the reef, and after passing through the elves’ legions, it turned in a circle on the distant hillside towards the front of the orcs. The flanks launched a new charge.

"Go ahead, Turin!"

The 760th chapter war frenzy

It was not the elves and dwarves who were in chaos and panic that greeted the orc army, but the rain of arrows rushing toward their faces.

There was a buzzing sound in the sky, and I saw five ballistas firing thick crossbow arrows at the same time behind the dwarf army. This is not an ordinary arrow. There are several blades behind each crossbow arrow, and the rotating arrow is in the air. There was a harsh sound. The crossbow arrow flew over the orc's head, and slammed into the crypt that was constantly pouring out of the orc behind. It was far away, and the demon hunter couldn't hear the screams of the orc who was hit, but standing on the wall of the river valley, he could see that the ground near the crypt was paved with a layer of black for a while, that was the color of the blood of the orc. .

"How is this going!?"

Barn cried out in surprise, maybe Azog on Crow Hill would also seem to know the answer to this question.

"This is temptation."

Zelin quickly walked down the stairs, and Barn followed closely behind, "Let the orcs attack, hurry up, Barn! Take your sword, go back to the chamber, and let all the women and children who have not been hiding into the chamber, hurry up!"

Inside the city wall, the shouts of killing outside can be heard clearly.

After Zelin and Gandalf got Bilbo's information in the morning, this was the best strategy Zelin could come up with in a short period of time. They knew that the orcs were hiding underground, but if the dwarves and elven humans were allowed to lay out their positions outside the valley city like this, it was obviously impossible to wait for the orcs to attack. The orcs will continue to hide underground and wait until the time is right, and the number of coalition forces is less than the orcs, naturally it is impossible to take the initiative to attack, leaving the cover of River Valley City and Gushan Yilubai, they are easily surrounded in the wilderness.

He needed a way to allow the elves and dwarves to expand their fronts outside the city, while also enticing the orcs to attack when the elves and dwarves were ready.

Since Azog wanted a conflict, Zelin gave him what he wanted. Let him hit the coalition spear that he had prepared for a long time. But this is also thanks to Bilbo. If the Hobbits hadn’t been able to transmit the news in time and detect the movements and plans of the orcs, after a long time, the demon hunter would have difficulty persuading Dein Ironfoot and Thrandil to accept themselves. s plan.

The sound of shouting and killing, the sound of fighting is endless. The dwarves rushed to the valley with Dyne's orders. The dense spears and heavy iron shields formed a metal line of defense in the valley of the solitary mountain. They moved together, expelling a strong shield wall with spears exposed. The black torrent of the orcs slammed into the dwarf's metal line of defense, metal crashing, shouting and fighting. The black wave slammed fiercely on the dwarf defense line. In the blink of an eye, the defense line seemed to be torn apart by the orcs. Some parts of the shield wall were repelled, but the dwarves behind immediately followed and blocked the gap in the defense line.

Numerous orc corpses were pierced, and some dwarves' spears even pierced three orcs. But there are so many orcs that the dwarves pressed by the heavy corpses on the spears cannot lift them up, and any fallen orc, whether dead or alive, will be trampled under the feet by the orcs behind in the next moment. Some orcs want Stepping on the corpse and jumping up to attack the dwarf behind the shield wall, but then the dwarf behind the shield wall pierced through with a spear.

"Let the arrow!"

Thranduil drew out his saber and swung the patterned Elf Sword forward, synchronizing with his sword, and the rain of arrows covering the sky in the sky. The arrows fired by nearly a thousand elves at the same time were like terrifying locusts, almost dyeing a piece of sky golden. In an instant, the sound of arrows hitting the ground and the flesh and blood of the orcs almost overwhelmed the metal collision sound of the weapon blades.

This is a sound that even the toughest dwarves will be horrified to hear, and the bravest will be shocked. There is no living thing left in the range of more than 50 meters, and at least seven or eight are inserted into each orc. With an arrow, the ground became a hedgehog's back in the blink of an eye. Screams and tears were endless, blood made the ground wet and slippery, and the stench of fish began to fill the battlefield with the cold wind from the north.

But this won't scare the orcs. They were born for war. More orcs stepped on the muddy ground and continued to rush towards the dwarven shield wall where there were no knowing how many corpses were piled up. Similarly, the dwarves and elves will not feel guilty because of this. Their blood feud with the orcs makes their hearts more angry.

"Let the arrow!"

Thranduil ordered again, and the elves neatly drew arrows from the quiver around their waists, bending bows, shooting arrows, and shooting. The movements were smooth and elegant, but the movements of thousands of elves seemed to be only one person. The arrow that obscured the sky flew once again to the head of the orc army rushing towards the dwarven line of defense, and the ground was instantly blackened. Without support, the pressure on the dwarven line of defense was instantly relieved.

"Turin people, go ahead!"

These mountain-like dwarves started to walk neatly. They kept roaring. The dwarves were short in stature, only half the size of human beings, but these dwarves in heavy metal armor seemed like unstoppable beasts. , Following the sound of the horn, took firm steps, and the shield with the spear began to advance, knocking down the orcs that hit them one by one to the ground, and then stepped under their feet.

Several orc tunnels were destroyed by crossbow arrows. The orcs there had not had time to clear the huge metal crossbow arrows. Although the number of remaining orcs far exceeded that of the dwarves, the dwarves began to step towards the orcs with the help of the rain of elves. As the direction of the crypt advanced, Dyne wanted to drive these orcs back to his own ground, and then completely sealed the crypt.