The Journey of the Demon Hunter

They fought bravely, but still couldn't beat these huge monsters.

"Let's help Dyne and kill those ogres!" Kili said to the other dwarven companions of the expedition. Others responded with a high roar. They had already shot all the arrows on the wall. They didn't know how many orcs were killed with the crossbows erected. Almost every arrow would cause an orc to fall, but it was compared with the number of orcs. Get up, this is just a drop in the bucket. The battle became more and more intense, and they couldn't stay on the wall and watch, especially the iron hill dwarves below who came to rescue them were constantly dying.

"Retreat, re-array!" Dyne shouted to the dispersed dwarf warriors. He pulled up the soldiers who fell on the ground.

Many dwarf warriors fell in the melee, and the overwhelming orcs made them tired to deal with. The dwarves started to back under the cover of the elves and established a new line of defense behind the first shield wall. Many dwarves covered each other back to back. The orcs kept hitting these teams in absolute numbers, smashing into these warriors time and time again. Until they fall. However, after the soldiers who had already regrouped behind established a new line of defense, most of the soldiers successfully retreated in.

"Let's go, let the orcs see how we are!"

The dwarves were shouting loudly and were about to slide down the city wall, but at this moment, in the dark tunnel in Iruba, a gloomy voice stopped them.

"Everyone is on standby."

Thorin, with dark circles under his eyes, wore the crown of his grandfather Thor that he found among the piles of gold coins, and walked out step by step, "No one is allowed to go out without my order."

"What?" These dwarves all looked at Thorin in surprise, and didn't understand why Thorin gave such an order. "Should we stand by and watch?!"

"I said, stand by!" Thorin shouted angrily, and then he walked to the hall in the shadow of the tunnel. "No one is allowed to open the door, no one."

The number of orcs was increasing. Gandalf destroyed the bridge. The orcs thought of new tactics. The ogres stood in the valley with wooden boards and turned into moving wooden bridges. The orcs stepped on them and marched towards the valley. The archers on the wall kept attacking these ogres with arrows, but as the boulders were thrown and a large number of orcs began to occupy the wall, the archers had to retreat. Some ogres began to cross the river, trying to climb directly from the low part of the city wall.

"Bad, we are going back, otherwise we will be surrounded by the wall."

Zelin found the archer on a section of the wall that had not yet been captured, and Gandalf who was struggling to fight the orcs. The wizard swung his staff and one-handed sword into a whirlwind, and the orcs who tried to approach him were pierced through their chests, or their heads smashed by the staff. He saw many wounded retreats being supported by their companions. There were fewer and fewer people still holding swords on the walls. The corpses of the killed orcs were piled up on the ground, but the number of them did not decrease at all.

"We need to retreat and regroup!"

"An orc rushed in from the direction of the causeway!" At some point, Bilbo appeared next to them. If the battle is over, the war can be passed on, there must be a hobbit worthy of a great novel. Book. Zelin chopped off the head of an orc who had just protruded from the other side of the city wall. The orc fell down the wooden ladder and knocked down several accomplices behind him, causing them to roll down with him.

Another boulder was thrown into the city, hitting a city wall. Several archers above couldn't dodge, and fell from the wall with a scream. Zelin raised his hand to block the flying gravel. When the dust settled, he patted the dust and a few small stones falling into his hair.

"Let's retreat to the inner city. There is a section of stone wall outside the market." Bud looked back at the inner city of River Valley. The city is built on a hillside. "We will regroup in the bazaar. Archers will go to the stone wall next to the bazaar to cover the retreat. Wizards, help us."

"You retreat as soon as possible, and I will be there soon."

Zelin stood by the intersection, and Gandalf walked over with a sword on the side. The wizard's peaked hat didn't know where it was thrown in the battle. Several huge bats flew in the sky, they screamed and swooped down, and the demon hunter raised a crossbow and fired at them. Some bats escaped, but there were still a few evil bats shot by arrows, screaming from the sky, turning around several times, and plunged into the ruins of nearby houses.

"Any other wise suggestions, wizard?" Zelin asked Gandalf casually. The nearby militiamen began to retreat, losing the suppression of the militiamen. A group of orcs swarmed on the wall in an instant. The gate was knocked open with a bang, and the orcs in black armor rushed into the streets of the city like tentacles.

"Fight to the end, I believe our allies can win." Gandalf nodded, holding the staff in both hands, and chanting a hasty spell. I saw the jewel on the top of the staff suddenly burst out with dazzling white light, and the white light shone along the road to the charged orcs. These orcs fell to the ground in pain as if they had touched the darkness of the sun.

"Really a simple and easy-to-understand suggestion."

An orc rushing from the side swung his axe and slashed towards Zelin, but his movements were too slow. Zelin avoided the axe's chopping effortlessly. He cut off the orc holding the axe with a single sword. The arm, a backhand sword pierced the enemy's neck through the gap in the armor.

"Try this!"

Zelin took out a honeycomb bomb from behind and threw it into the orcs who were charging. The air currents from the violent explosion overturned all the nearby orcs to the ground.

"Let's go!"

Chapter 764 Respite

A black torrent crossed the city wall, submerging the gray-white city wall in the blink of an eye.

Zelin didn't know how many orc forces Azog had, but the number was definitely more than Gandalf warned. More than a dozen orcs appeared from the corner of the street. They didn't seem to have any specific tactics. They were just attacking the river valley city with a number of advantages. But this is the most effective tactic. There are more orcs than humans, elves, and dwarves combined.

The orcs' reserve team is constantly throwing into the battlefield. Azog's command was delivered to every corner of the battlefield with the horn and inciting bone wings.

"They can't hold on and step up their offensive!"

Azog's scarred face couldn't contain the excitement, and the situation of war seemed to be re-entering the development he expected. The first battle encountered some setbacks, but it was not important. These losses were not enough to hurt the orc army. His army is still continuously throwing into the battlefield, and in front of the mighty orcs, the number of coalition forces is pitiful.

The smell of blood was in the air. The militiamen retreated to the inner city and began to regroup. Not everyone was able to retreat safely. Zelin heard that many people were looking for their relatives and friends. They gathered together, but couldn't stop it. They asked people around them in a low voice, to find out if they had seen someone, or where they were. Many people don't get the answer, and perhaps no answer is the best result.

Many people rested in the market to prepare for more fierce war. The orcs who had already captured the outer city are also gathering, preparing to launch a new round of attacks. Zelin walked past a group of wounded and squeezed past the militiamen who were wet with blood. This should be the blood of orcs. They killed a lot of orcs, but it was not enough to weaken the enemy and let them launch a counterattack.

There happened to be a vertical high ground beside the bazaar, and you could only climb up the stairs. Archers were standing on the stone wall and shooting at the orcs who appeared near the bazaar. After retreating into the city, the stones of the beasts of war could not continue to bombard the humans. On the streets of the city, humans and orcs were mixed together. This instead gave the militiamen a chance to breathe. There is no need to worry about the heads from time to time The boulder smashed down. Moreover, the scope of the city wall is too large. Holding the city wall is just to disperse the few militiamen, making it easier for them to be surrounded and destroyed by orcs several times their own.

Zelin found Bud at the top of the ramp fair. He was talking with several militiamen to learn how many people they could fight left.

Seeing the demon hunter approaching, he nodded to the other militiamen and turned to Zelin.

"You are back. We need to retake Stone Street. We need a plan."

"How many people are left?" Zelin looked at the militia in the bazaar and asked Bud, "have everyone withdrawn?"

"I have sent everyone to the bazaar to assemble." Bud said as he walked up the **** of the bazaar. There was a stone tower where the top floor was destroyed. It was probably the Dragon Flame that was destroyed by Smaug, but they can still stand on the edge of the second floor and observe the outer city of River Valley. "Now only half of the people have withdrawn, but there should be someone who can When they come back, they may be temporarily entangled by the orcs."

They were standing on the stone platform, and there were several places of heavy smoke rising from the ruins of the city. Some places were lit by demon hunters covering the retreat of the militia, and some of them were attributed to the orcs. They could see that in the distant wasteland, black waves were hitting the golden and gray positions time and time again.

"What's the situation in Stone Street?"

"There is a long staircase in that area that leads directly to the Chamber. The orcs have already seized the street, but we hold the steps and we must take it back, otherwise, once the orcs break through our defenses, they will bypass us and attack and hide. The chamber of women and children, and attacked us from the higher part of the city from top to bottom." Bud knows the city very well. Zelin has been in River Valley City for almost seven days and has not figured out the streets of the city. . But it is precisely this, and Bud's opinion is very valuable.

At this time, there was another chaos below the bazaar, and a group of embarrassed militiamen returned to the bazaar, and the people below crowded around to help.

Looking at the militiamen below, Bud shook his head, "I hope we can attack the orcs before they complete the assembly."

The horn on Raven Hill in the distance sounded again, and the orcs attacking the dwarves and elves began to retreat slowly. Azog seemed to be preparing for a new round of offensive, completely compressing the two armies at the foot of the lone mountain. The elves' army is trying to maintain the connection between Lone Mountain and the northeast of River Valley City, but as long as the orcs attack again, the area is estimated to be occupied by the orcs soon. The dwarves’ ballistas left a large corpse on the ground, but now their attack has changed from a salvo of five ballistas at the beginning to only two ballistas and ballistas.

"I have a bold idea."

Zelin squinted his eyes and looked at the battlefield in the distance. "We can't continue to shrink in the city and be beaten. As long as Azog is still in command of the army, the orcs can continue to attack according to his wishes. Sooner or later, we will be defeated. ."

Perhaps Bilbo’s news and Zelin’s joint efforts will prevent the Gushan coalition from being caught off guard at the beginning, and can use all their strength to meet the orcs, but this is not the full solution, he It can be seen that the orcs do not have their own tactical thinking and rely entirely on the command horn of Crow Ridge. As long as they can destroy the banner of Crow Ridge, the orcs can be thrown into chaos.

"Do you want to attack Crow Ridge? This is impossible. We don't have so much power to fight back."

"This is the only weakness of the orcs. I'm sorry I can't find other methods. If there is a safer and more effective method, I am naturally happy to accept it. Let your people hold on to the city as much as possible." Zelin shook his head "and deal with the numbers." Compared to thousands of orcs, defeating dozens of orcs on Raven Hill is easy. I'm going to talk to Gandalf."

Once the orcs lose their organization, they can easily be defeated by a well-trained army. This will not only reduce the pressure on River Valley City, but also reduce the difficulty of fighting between elves and dwarves. Perhaps the remaining militia of Bard can continue to fight and gradually regain the city. The elite soldiers of dwarves and elves can kill more orcs, but sooner or later they will become exhausted, and the orcs' troops can still continue to flow. Coming up. As long as Azog is still there, more than half of the orcs' deaths will not stop, throwing away their weapons and disintegrating.

Chapter 765 Bad News

Gandalf sat on the stone stand by the market, smoking his pipe in silence. With the staff placed in front of him, Zelin originally thought about whether to ask the wizard for a staff after the battle was over, as a gift to come to another world this time. But after seeing that this staff often failed, he still dispelled the idea. The elves will certainly not like this kind of things that can make mistakes, she has always pursued accuracy.

"Gandalf, we have to talk, I have a plan, it should be able to turn the tide of war."

"Plan?" Gandalf raised his eyebrows. "I believe Thranduil and Dyne can block the attacks of the orcs, but I don't think this is the full strength of Azog." The wizard began to mutter to himself, "These The emblems on the orcs are all on the surface that they are from the tribe of the Misty Mountains. I haven't seen Polg's army. I suspect they have other preparations."

"No matter what they are preparing, this is good news for us, at least for the time being." Now this is the number and scale of the orcs that have allowed the coalition forces to cooperate fully to fight against. In front of the army, they can have too little influence on the situation. "I'm going to Crow Ridge to kill the commander of the orcs. I need help."

"We don't have horses. You can't run to Crow Ridge on two legs." Gandalf did not object directly, but stated the unrealistic aspects of this plan. There are army of orcs everywhere outside the city. He needs at least a fast horse that can drive him around the army of orcs, or he needs a fully-armed dwarf chariot, otherwise he cannot be composed of thousands of warriors alone. Kill through the legion.

"I have a horse." To meet Gandalf's eyes, Zelin opened his hands. "There should be another person. I need someone to help me clear the roads in the city, and someone who understands the location of Crow Ridge. "

The ghost horse, although he is reluctant to summon this kind of mount that obviously doesn't make people think of good things in this world that advertises goodness and evil, but at this time, he can't find a war horse in iron armor. Horses without any protection are easily killed when they break through. At that time, they are trapped in the crowd of beasts.