The Journey of the Demon Hunter

Outside the Fargon Forest, Isengard's orcs also watched the movement of the Rohan people outside.

"Humans are moving, master, are humans going to attack?"

Saruman stood on Isengard’s balcony with his hands on the edge, and a strong orc stayed behind him: “King Haydon has retreated. He can’t attack. He doesn’t have enough food. Maybe he has a messenger. Tell him the news of the attack in Rohan, and now he will lead the army back to help."

"What shall we do, Master?" the strong orc asked, "Catch up and kill all the humans?"

"No." Saruman shook his head with a confident smile, holding the staff confidently, turned and walked back to the room in the tower: "We need to wait. The Dark Lord's troops should have arrived in Edoras by this time. , Is attacking the capital of Rohan. The Ruen Legion is a relatively strong force among the Eastern humans who are loyal to the devil. What we have to do now is to wait until the Rohan and Ruen people kill each other and both lose. I will conquer the Rohan. I have already told the Misty Mountain troops that set out before that they cannot attack Rohan. They only need to burn and loot the village. After the battle between the Ruen and the Rohan is over, they will attack Ido. Lars, grab the elf weapon from the victor."

Rohan is an enemy, but Sauron is also only a temporary ally.

The reason Sauron did this is very simple. He definitely didn't want to help Isengard. He just didn't want to lose this opportunity to conquer Rohan once and for all and attack Gondor. Gondor is located on the border of Mordor, and he has experienced wars with Mordor for an unknown number of years. Sauron wouldn't mind sending troops to help the white-robed wizard who had been against him if he could sweep away the obstacles on the border.

Gandalf said that Sauron will not share power with anyone, and he will definitely attack his allies after he wins.

He didn't know. There will only be one ruler in the world.

But what he wasn't sure was exactly how King Hiurdon's troops retreated. If they have an orderly rear side, according to Isengard's current strength, it will be difficult to chase them out and defeat the enemy on the plain. And without this force, he will also lose bargaining with Sauron, including the bargaining chip to seize the Lord of the Rings. He can't chase rashly, he must observe the enemy's movements before making a decision.

"Master, master!"

Suddenly, a half-orc trot into the tower: "Master, there is a human being who drove over on horseback. He said he was the master's servant and wanted to see the master."

Saruman was silent for a few seconds: "Bring him in and let the others out."

Before long, Grima panting embarrassedly fell to Saruman's throne. His face was pale and haggard, and his eyes were sunken. It was difficult to sleep for a long time, which made his eyes have dark circles outside his eyes, which contrasted sharply with his bloodless face. The original neat black velvet coat was covered with dust and mud.

"Master." He gasped: "Master, I bring you very important information!"

"You rubbish." Saruman said coldly, "I ask you to control King Xiurton, but you not only failed, but you almost ruined my opportunity."

"Master, please give me a chance." Grima sneered, bending over, holding his hands in front of him, and said flatly: "I have a very important piece of information, you definitely want to know. It's in Idora In Edoras, I overheard it by accident."

"How did you escape?" Saruman looked at Grima carefully: "Or, you have taken refuge in Xiurton again and brought him wrong information to me?"

Grima swallowed hard: "No, master, how dare I betray you! There is no one in Edoras anymore. I found an old horse in the stable, which was dropped by a Rohan. Old horse, came here on a horse. Everyone in Edoras has escaped!"

"Escaped?" Saruman stood up abruptly, his figure was tall, and his shadow stretched on the ground for a long time, covering Grima in it: "What's the matter?! Is it because of fear of being attacked and escaped?"

"No, master, master, you sent a team of orcs to attack Edoras, right? Those orcs failed, master, three days ago, the night before, a wizard riding a flying monster arrived at Edoras. , He claimed that the orcs approaching Edoras had been defeated and defeated!" Grima trembled and looked up at Saruman, as if forced to look directly into the eyes of the white-robed wizard: "But there is a Lu When the benefactor's troops were about to arrive in Edoras, the Rohan of Edoras packed up everything and fled to the Black Man Temple."

"All? The orcs have been wiped out?!"

Saruman squeezed his wand's arm, and the back of his hand stretched.

Now, he has no orcs waiting for the Ruen people to attack before going to take advantage of the fishermen. After the Ruen defeated the Rohan, they would get all the spoils of Edoras.

In other words, the second ring of power may also fall into the hands of Sauron!

"Call everyone, I want to go to Rohan!"

Chapter 2451 The Floating King Banner

Within a few days of Grima's escape, the leader of the Ruen people encountered the same problem as Saruman.

When the Luohan's king flag appeared within the Luen people's sight, the Ruen soldiers who were still resting on the spot immediately assembled and attacked the place where the king flag was. But they have no cavalry, only standard pikemen. So he was quickly left behind by the rider, and he could only see Luohan's king flag disappearing in the distant hills.

Realizing that their troops had been discovered, the Ruen people became more alert and speeded up their march. But by the evening of the same day, the sentinel sent out by the Ruen people discovered that the Luohan King Banner had once again appeared on the hills near the camp, and several horsemen were clustered under the king's flag, as if they were observing the movement and military strength of the Ruen people.

Their general immediately dispatched manpower to pursue it. After realizing that he was spotted, Wang Qi immediately moved and fled to the west. The Luen sentry rushed into the air, and could only return to the camp again exhausted to repair, cursing the humans riding on the horses, cursing their mounts to throw the rider down and break his neck.

For the next whole day, this cavalry team never left the sight of the Luen people, and stayed close to them to follow and observe. Until the end, the commander of the Loen Army decided to find an opportunity to ambush them. In the end, the soldiers they arranged on the hillside in advance waited for the appearance of this group of people, but in a small-scale conflict, the Ruen people left more than 20 corpses, and they did not succeed in leaving behind any rider. But their actions are not without gains.

Riding a horse, running fast on the grassland. Zelin took the reins until the Loenian's yelling and cursing completely disappeared in the hills behind him. By their side, Eowyn and Polomma also stopped their horses. Altarel was at the back, about thirty meters behind them. Ruen people are fully armed and draped in hard armor, but the elves' archery can accurately shoot arrows into the gaps between the armors. Along the way, those who chased them only left many shot dead bodies.

"These Eastern humans have always been the enemy of Gondor. Before the rise of Mordor's half-orcs, Gondor had defeated the Eastern humans several times." Poromo panted, and there was still a stick left on his body. Rope, an ambushing Luen tried to use a rope to pull him off the horse, but Poromer reacted quickly. He cut off the rope and killed another enemy who rushed over: "Sauron already has a lot of In 1989, no Eastern humans were recruited to fight for him."

"Thinking in a good direction, this means that the half-orcs nowadays are no longer enough to satisfy Sauron's ambition to conquer the West." Zelin sat on horseback, turned around and waited for Altarel to follow. Did it fall?"

"When the Luen attacked me, I threw it away and then drew the sword." Poromo nodded, with doubts on his face: "But does it really make sense?"

"If we show it to them, I guess they won't believe it. To be honest, I can't be sure they will follow my plan. But we can try to pretend to be investigating them, and then accidentally throw them away in the attack. I wrote an investigation diary with a plan for the next step. I think there is a high probability that they will take this diary seriously."

Part of the diary was prepared in advance, and the remaining records about the Luen people were recorded during the investigation in the past two days. If you want to pretend, you have to pretend to be more realistic in order to deceive the enemy.

In the diary, they revealed that Rohan's plan was due to the large number of Luen people, so King Haydon decided to temporarily abandon Edoras. First retreat the remaining army to the Black Man Temple, wait for the Luen people to cross Idoras, and then rush out from the Black Man Temple, and together with the cavalry who retreated from the mouth of the Aisen River, pinch and destroy it on the plain outside the West Valley. An invading army from the east.

"They didn't catch up." Alta Reall approached, took the reins and slowed down: "Should we continue to attack?"

"No, we have to wait for the news next." Zelin looked in the direction of the Luen people. The field of vision on the grassland is wide. They don't need to be too close to let the enemy find out: "Look at their moving direction, I think they Next, I might go to Edoras first. I’m going to Edoras, prepare some gifts, and create some traps. If there are only deadly traps in a city, no material supplies, and no enemy captives, then it’s meaningless. Now they can’t wait to attack the Rohan, instead of occupying a city and standing by for help. Altariel, you stay here and monitor the movement of the Ruen people. If they suddenly change their course, they will go to Yi immediately. Doras go and tell me, otherwise, after night falls, you will go to Edoras again and tell me what the Luen people did this afternoon."

"No." Altariel said stiffly: "You know what I mean."

Zelin sighed heavily, "This is not a time for joking, Ranger!"

"I never make a joke."

"I need this half a day. I don't want the people of Loen to do something when I leave, but I don't know anything..."

"I can stay." Eowyn said: "The king flag is in my hand, and the people of Luen will notice the flag. I also know the road. It's not far from here to Edoras. It only takes more than an hour to ride a horse. Able to arrive. It is estimated that the Luen people will see the top of the Golden Temple at noon tomorrow. I can monitor them. This task is not difficult for me."

"Don't worry, sorcerer, my Royal Highness and I will stay, and you will do more important things." Boromo also said to the side: "It's only half a day, compared to my task of monitoring the movement of the orcs in Osgilias. It's much simpler. My brother Faramo led the Gondor army in Osgilias, and the spy must have discovered the movement of the Ruen people. Gondor will not turn a blind eye to what happened to Rohan by then."

Zelin didn't expect much from Gondor to send troops to support Rohan at this time.

Compared with Rohan, they confronted Mordor's half-orcs on the Anduin River, and I am afraid that there is no extra force that can be deployed to help Rohan. Too few troops will not help, and too many soldiers may put Gondor himself in danger. Zelin once fought in Mordor. He knew how many half-orcs were there, even if the fighting power of half-orcs was not as good as humans in one-on-one, but when tens of thousands of half-orcs rushed out of the valley of Mordor, they killed After joining Gondor, individual combat power is not so important.

"Altariel, help pass me the broken pieces of iron."

"These?"

"No, that's phosphor powder, don't need this. The iron flakes are the iron flakes in the bright sense."

Zelin was making a new bomb. He raised his hand and took a small leather bag full of broken iron pieces. After opening it, he poured some of the iron pieces into the bomb shell: "I only hope this thing can kill some enemies. It’s not about igniting this city."

"Ignite? Have you ever thought about it?"

"If this is not the royal city of Rohan." Zelin raised his eyes and scanned the wooden house in front of him, the roof covered with straw: "If the Luen enter the city and occupy Edoras, think of a way. The fire ignites the city. This 2,000-man army is dead, and at least half of it will be lost. With so many flammable buildings, the temperature of the flame can directly scorch people."

"You can't do this."

"Of course, I know." Zelin nodded: "So I only made some bombs that would only splash iron flakes, instead of igniting flames, otherwise I could bury the dream of a dragon under the wall."

There are two thousand Luen people, and he now has less than two hundred militiamen and a few elite guards, but there are too few archers among them. Eowyn described the terrain of the Black Man Temple to Zelin, which is very suitable for defense, but the premise is that there must be enough archers to stand on the top of the mountain and directly attack the enemy on the Z-shaped mountain road. But if there are no archers, there should be some rocks on that mountain, and they can create some obstacles artificially. But this might make the Luen people suspect that there are actually not many soldiers in the Black Man Temple, so they will attack the mouth of the Aisen River instead.

This time, he might indeed need luck.

"Prepare some bombs at the gate of the city, then create a panic escape in the city, kick the door open, overturn the seat, push down the corral, and wait for them to return, we should go to the Black Man Temple. There is nothing worth staying here. Something underneath."