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The Senate, which was mainly controlled by the first three, quickly passed a decree called "Emergency Plan for Chivalrous Expedition", stating that in order to deal with this important war, as long as it was authorized by the court and voted by the Senate, then in theory the imperial center could recruit anyone and ask them to join the expedition.

Subsequently, a large number of factory owners and wealthy businessmen who were "on the list", from small fry to big fish, received conscription orders from the Senate. Of course, the Senate did not really want these businessmen, who had more or less vested interests with all classes and dignitaries in the empire, to physically participate in the war in the mountains.

Although every citizen should work hard for Sigmar's empire and the great crusade of order, considering the division of labor and expertise, these merchants don't have to take up arms and go to the battlefield themselves. After all, even if these wealthy nobles who live a life of luxury and wealth bring with them a set of magic props and equipment, it may be risky to go head-on with thousands of greenskins in the badlands...

For example, let the green skin eat jewelry and get it stuck in its teeth?

So the Empire's demands on them were simple, just one:

take money!

hurry up!

Otherwise, in the name of Sigmar, I will really stuff you into the barracks, kick your fat butts with my iron boots, and let you go and talk to the greenskins, okay?

In fact, it can be summed up in one sentence: "Donate, dear!"

Although it was a common practice to ask merchants to raise military funds for war, in the eyes of merchants, it was a new era now. You can't just ask me to give it to you, right? At least talk about it first? Draw a line? Then make some exchange of interests... Then the Senate, which was controlled by the court, the dignitaries, and the church, gave a decisive reply:

Transfer money immediately!

While sending military police to knock on the door, they did not take direct action. They first visited the person and registered to "prepare" for later use.

This is a major national strategy and everyone must obey it.

The emperor's attitude was very decisive.

What’s more, if the dwarves really “break off diplomatic relations” with me, my reputation will be bad and it will be difficult for you to do business!

In addition, there was a breaking news from the church—the second living saint to be publicly announced in the second hundred years since the Great Holy War!

The chosen one of Sigmar (and Myrmidia), the champion warrior!

Descendant of the legendary general Julius of the Empire!

Celestine Julius will personally join this crusade to support the Mountain Kingdom, in the name of Sigmar!

At the same time, a large number of priests also announced that they would temporarily give up their duties at home and join this chivalrous expedition. Among them, many were "returning" priests... Under the general trend, the merchant class could only "donate generously" and contribute money and manpower to support this great battle of the empire.

This was the second time in the history of the empire that support was provided to another ally on such a large scale and over such a long distance. The first time was to help the southerners beat Araby.

Summer month of the year 2697 of the Imperial Calendar.

The Second Chivalrous Crusade kicked off with great fanfare in Altdorf.

Chapter 130: Eastern Expedition, Sent to the Bad Land

Everlook Fort, located in the south of Haimen Pass, has always been the outpost for the dwarves to monitor the badlands and resist the enemy's invasion from the north. After the war, it was vigorously rebuilt by the dwarves of Haimen Pass. With the dwarves' generous investment, this semi-militarized fortress had a population of more than 100,000 people at its peak, and a standing army of 8,000 people, of which only 1,200 were dwarf warriors, and the majority of its composition was humans.

On a plain east of Everlook Castle, a skirmish ended.

The greenskin battle flag with the ugly and funny face of Brother Gomao was chopped off and thrown into the pile of corpses to be burned. The Alliance battle flags with a double-headed eagle and a six-pointed star carved on the front and back respectively fluttered high in the howling wind of the badlands.

The iron hooves of the Centaurs roared on the Badlands plains. Their charge destroyed the greenskins' defenses and morale. The fleeing savage enemies were then repeatedly ravaged and slaughtered by wolves and Centaur legions on the plains. In the end, only a few survivors of the war gang composed of tens of thousands of greenskins escaped.

They will bring a horrifying message to the depths of the Badlands and the mountains to let the warlords and leaders know:

A formidable rival has joined the battle between them and the dwarfs.

Even with the greenskins' roughness and stupidity, those guys and hunks who managed to survive the Alliance's army will have a deep impression of the enemies they encountered in their memories.

A force of 800 people was sent out from Haimen Pass, but they were essentially just guides for the Alliance's Eastern Expedition. Al rejected the proposal of his allies to fight side by side, but it was not out of arrogance. He humbly explained to the Haimen Pass dwarves who were slightly grumbling about this and suspected that the other party doubted his strength:

It's not for any other reason, it simply doesn't make sense.

By the time the Haimen Pass troops were deployed to the battlefield, the war had already entered the final stage of slaughter. The implication might be that they thought the dwarves had short legs? ———If someone with a lower charm and a lower favorability had said this, it would probably have been recorded in the dwarves' little notebook afterwards. It was only because of El's high charm and his reputation as a "trustworthy good man" in the Mountain Kingdom that he did not attract any doubts.

This kind of "arrogance and self-confidence" that can no longer be simply described as arrogance made even the most boastful dwarf unable to say anything questioning on the spot.

It’s nothing, his aura is too strong.

Although Al may be a bit unreliable sometimes...most of the time, if we judge him by the standards of a traditional king?

But he had faced the gods, driven his car over hundreds of thousands of greenskins (really), led his troops over mountains and across rivers to launch a surprise attack on a home base, and destroyed an entire kingdom in one wave - no matter whether it was his civil or military achievements, he could be said to be famous, and there were few people in the world who could talk to him on an equal footing.

Such a person just walks there with a smile on his face, and even people from the same camp or outside the alliance will feel "like being surrounded by a tiger". I don't know if the smile on Al's face is because he thought of something funny, or he is just being cheerful and friendly.

And it turns out that Al, the Alliance, is indeed, fully worthy of his confidence.

This 30,000-strong army stayed at Haimen Pass for only half a month. After taking some of the supplies provided by the dwarves, they traveled light and headed straight eastward.

All the green-skinned gangs, big and small, encountered on the road were like snowflakes encountering the scorching sun, melting away completely without even a drop of health left.

The field artillery smashed, the heavily-armored furious horns pressed forward, the mage regiment rode griffins in the air to provide spell support at any time, the monster army cooperated to break the formation and swept across, and finally the Centaur cavalry and wolves launched a charge from both sides.

The huge warband consisting of tens of thousands of greenskins was reduced to broken limbs all over the ground. The unknown black orc warrior was stabbed to death by a pony's halberd and then impaled on a flagpole to show off his power. He looked quite like her aunt.

Because they are facing an alien, barbaric enemy, the beastmen have to use their old skills when they beat the greenskins in Estalia - to leave their bodies behind in battle and to build a memorial tower.

It is a blood sacrifice, but also a way to intimidate the enemy and demonstrate military prowess.

Seeing that Pina's old brothers (beastmen) were about to use their "fine tradition" of physically killing the enemy again, Al urgently called a halt. He did not want to make his "king's army" too bloody.

Which kingly army would support its allies by slaughtering and sacrificing blood along the way?

However, the dwarves did not seem to have any complaints about this. Instead, they thought—“This is fucking awesome!”

"That's how he should be killed!"

"A dead greenskin is a good greenskin! And there are rats, beasts... Chaos Beastmen!"

"It's a pity there are spores, otherwise I really want to peel off the skin of these brainless bastards and make a carpet from Haimen Pass to Yongheng Peak!" The dwarf who said this caused the scene to stagnate for a moment, and then everyone said: "Your idea is really creative!"

"I heard that there's an greenskin farm in Strom Pass - they use greenskin meat to feed goats and experiment with their weird inventions. I think after we capture Black Rock Hold and retake Eight Peaks Mountain, we can do the same in the Badlands!" The dwarf, who was in high spirits after seeing such a clean and neat war with less than three-digit casualties, proposed excitedly.

Another dwarf added: "Actually, it's not difficult to deal with the spores. I heard that the north is cooperating with the skeletons in Sylvania..." The person who said this was lightly bumped by his companion next to him, so he immediately stopped talking.

The expeditionary force at Haimen Pass - the Alliance Guides and the Military Observer Group expressed strong recognition and praise after seeing the power of the Allies with their own eyes.

While the bottom lane was in a state of panic, suddenly TP lit up in the river, and the single brother on the side lane was like a god descending from heaven, a tiger pouncing on a flock of sheep:

“This is a sure thing!”

Some dwarves were so excited that they even shed tears.

how many years?

It is the dwarves who fight to the death, support their allies, and are good brothers who are trustworthy and reliable.

Today I finally got support from others!

The Alliance's multi-racial mixed army displayed unrivaled field strength in the battle, causing many dwarves who had originally slightly puzzled over Aiel's insistence on rejecting the persuasion of the Eternal Peak messenger and the Sea Gate dwarves and wanting the Alliance's army to go through the Sea Gate-Valeka Hills to Thunder Castle and then through the tunnels there to the Black Rock Castle front line, a safer route, to completely agree with the Alliance Lord's approach.

Previously, after learning about the situation on the front line of the Endless Mountains in detail, Al rejected the dwarves' proposal, even though the Eternal Peak warmly welcomed his arrival and thought that if he led the army to the front line step by step to support the High King who was leading the army in person, he would surely reap huge rewards.

"I'm here to help, but you have to do it my way."

Aiel refused to reach the front line via the route provided by the dwarves, believing that the complex terrain of the fortresses and mountain castles and the current situation of confrontation between the two sides were not suitable for his legion to perform well.

If Aiel leads his army to arrive, the balance of power between the two sides will shift towards the dwarves, and a war is bound to break out. The Alliance Army will win in frontal combat, preferably in plains and deserts. If worst comes to worst, woodlands and hills will also do. The Beastmen have racial bonuses, but are weak in attacking strongholds. So far, he has only laid siege to a few cities properly, and has always used force to overwhelm and crush the enemy.

If we attack mountain fortresses, dig tunnels, and engage in guerrilla warfare and siege warfare with the greenskins who have the geographical advantage, we will inevitably suffer huge casualties.

Totally not worth it.

Ai'er's plan was to go straight east after passing Everlook Castle and rush towards the Iron Rock. He would constantly attract and strangle the greenskins he bumped into along the way, attract the greenskins' attention, and open up a second battlefield.

There is no way to fight the dwarves. The greenskins' greatest manpower advantage is largely offset by the mercenaries that the enlightened dwarves have brought in from all over the world. In field battles, facing the dwarf army armed to the teeth, the greenskins, who do not have the bug power like the space greenskins who can rely on "I think" to quickly improve their technology and become equal to the enemy, have a very hard time fighting.

After the Great War, the living environment of the Greenskins west of the Endless Mountains has not been very good. After investigating the situation of the Greenskins, some anthropologists went back and made up a book, swearing that an internal fight broke out between the two original gods of the Greenskins, "Gao Ka" and "Mao Ka", which led to the decline of the Greenskins.

......

But no matter what, the greenskins are a huge ethnic group distributed from the ice and snow of Kislev to the lava volcanoes of the Dark Land.

No one knows how many greenskins are left in the Endless Mountains.

But on the Black Rock Fort front line, the dwarves deployed nearly 50,000 dwarf warriors, nearly 100,000 mercenaries from all over the world, and thousands of various artillery pieces, catapults, and siege equipment.

However, despite the arduous battle, they were unable to capture this crucial fortress and open the gate to Bafeng Mountain.

It is not an exaggeration to estimate that the greenskins, ogres, chaos beastmen and even some Skaven rats who do not want to reveal their existence on the opposite side of them, together, there are about 300,000 or 400,000 of them.

Moreover, this battle had not happened for too long - the warlord dealt with Mao Liang too quickly, and many greenskins did not have time to "come upon hearing the news" before they rose and fell suddenly. The warlord's gang was shattered, and the greenskins disappeared.

The great war that had not happened in a long time was like some kind of tribal announcement that spread across regions among the greenskins. Many wild orcs wandering far away in Nehekhara became restless. Some of them with strong mobility had already started fighting all the way north, heading towards the front line of Black Rock Castle to participate in this war that would determine the rise and fall of the greenskins. The greenskins did not have such a lofty concept in their minds. It was enough for them as long as they felt that there was a super Waaaagh, super wow fight to be fought here!

However, it is much more difficult for the dwarves to replenish their troops than the greenskins, even if they have the support of the order side to provide manpower support.

So from the beginning, Al had no intention of going to Black Rock Castle to dig holes and fight a siege.

His purpose is clear:

Follow the story of Estalia!

With an invincible army and an unstoppable force!

Defeat the greenskins in field battle!

Chapter 131: My way of employing military forces lies in one’s heart!

This is a major event that will determine the survival of the world and the fate of El in less than a hundred years.

Unable to load the save file, unable to~ Ai'er, who has ascended to the fourth disaster with one click, must do it himself to ensure that he has done his best and fight for destiny.

As for letting his offspring lead the army... he was not that bold. It was not that he was afraid of overdoing it and disturbing the leader, but simply because, even if all the offspring other than him were present, the bonus to the legion might not be as great as if he were present in person on the battlefield.

Although the blessing of the Four Mothers expires once you leave the Southern World, but as a hidden big boss in himself, a copycat version of the "Eternal Chosen", Ai'er is a powerful warrior - he has killed the Beast King Zaken in a battle formation; a powerful wizard - he has killed one of the Four Robe Wizards of the Council of Scholars under his command. In addition, the main way he uses magic is to use pleasure magic for some entertainment.

He is also an outstanding commander! (Shock)

Experienced in hundreds of battles, victorious in every battle!

How could he not come in person to help his dwarven allies get revenge? "Who else but me?"

Well, the secondary reason was because of these. Al's presence could indeed inspire the soldiers to fight to the death; but the main reason was that he was afraid.

After all, the Middle Ages was a special world where mathematics was problematic and ex machina was the fundamental logic of how the world operated.

Suddenly, an ambush appeared, and suddenly they were surrounded. Suddenly, there was a "click", and a big crack appeared on the ground. A group of demon armies rushed out and killed both sides of the war, but it was just "nothing special".

He really didn't feel comfortable handing over his legion's capital to anyone other than himself during such a major event.

Even if he loses, it is his own fault.

Al would rather bang his head against the wall and kill himself with his sword on the battlefield than to vomit blood and shout in anger when Margarita suddenly received a report:

Misha or Kael'thas or Barbatos or Alia——Give me back my legion!

He wants to do the best he can.

So Ai'er personally led the second batch of 20,000 reinforcements and passed by the Giant Tower. He used (physics) to convince people and made this semi-independent free city-state, which only paid tribute to the city of Mirmiden on the other side of the sea, which was controlled by the Senate composed of a group of merchants and military leaders, deeply realize the meaning of "Southern unity" and "order first". It opened its doors to the fleets coming from the Alliance, welcomed them with open arms, went ashore at Barak Seagate, joined up with the 8,000 vanguard soldiers, took over a batch of supplies from the dwarves, and then could not wait to launch the Eastern Expedition.

Maybe this might be a bit arrogant, but Al thought about it carefully. Take Haimen Pass for example. This fortress has not been attacked by a large-scale greenskin war gang for hundreds of years. Black Rock Castle is now a hot spot on the front line. The main force of the greenskins are dragged there. The unknown man, Al has not even heard of his name yet, is said to be backed by a group of sinister and cunning goblins and ogre advisers. The greenskin boss has such prestige that it is impossible for him to control the hundreds of thousands of greenskins under his command.

And the greenskins really like to have a big and vigorous chaos.

If you let it hide in a hole in the city wall and wait for the dwarves to come in and hit it on the head, it may be fresh and interesting for a while, but after a long time it will inevitably lose interest in this "boring" defensive battle.

At this time, a group of "very good fighters" who were "running around outside" and shooting with muskets and crossbows without hiding behind rocks joined the battle and wandered around them.

Given the racial nature of the greenskins, it is impossible for them to just leave Ai'er alone.

There will inevitably be a large number of greenskins coming to "encircle and suppress" the Alliance Legion like sharks smelling blood.

Aiur can easily attract enemies that are several times larger than himself and try to defeat them in field battles. This will reduce the pressure on the dwarves on the front battlefield. For the entire war, the morale of the greenskins will inevitably be greatly reduced due to continuous failures, which is more efficient than Aiur leading his legion into the mountains.

In order to achieve this goal and deal with the possible situation of an influx of greenskins that are several times larger than his own, Al has made sufficient preparations.

In his 1-strong Eastern Expedition Army, the ratio of humans to beastmen is almost 2:, and brother Pina is the absolute main force.

Even the human soldiers were almost all "old soldiers" who had followed him to recover the South and fought in the Northern Expedition. They were brave warriors who could form formations to resist the charges of pig cavalry and fight with big guys and trolls with knives.

———They are all believers of the Blood Mother.

I’m afraid that I won’t kill enough enemies or gain enough glory before I die.

Not to mention the beastmen.

There are almost no large-horned or inferior-horned orcs (renamed flat-horned by Ai'er) who are usually auxiliary and long-range soldiers. Almost all of them are angry-horned war beasts who believe in the Blood Mother and then transform into other forms. All of them can be called heavy armor, using long halberds to block horses, broadswords and sickles to break formations, axes, shields, swords and shields to hold the line...

Including the elite drawn from the six legions, the Troll Grenadiers, Ai'er's Guards, the Wrath of the Horns, Scorpion-tailed Lions, Wyverns, and the Sky Legion composed of Griffins, and the Priest Shaman Spellcaster Legion...

He and his three children, Kael'thas, Hera, Alia's personal guard, the strongest fighter in the entire alliance, the God-chosen champion Alina; the blessed bull Alastar who can tear giants apart with bare hands...