Warhammer

Such an army, with supplies, can defeat not only several times as many enemies as them, but ten times as many!

......

Well, Al will definitely try to lubricate it first, but if it doesn’t work, he will also adopt the pig tactic.

If you can run back to Haimen Pass, run back to Haimen Pass. If you have the guts, come and crash into the iron wall of my ally!

Even if they could win, the war would inevitably come at the cost of huge casualties. Al would usually avoid the enemy if possible, first trying to weaken and divide the enemy before attacking. This was his usual safe command style.

According to Al's opinion of the cubs:

"Misha is popular and can command the army, but unfortunately she is not as good as her father; Kael'thas is good at strategy and has a plan, but his bravery cannot intimidate the army; Barbatos is supported by his soldiers, but he is not ruthless and cruel as a general should be; Hera is brave but does not use her brain. If I don't watch, she will rush into a crowd and get killed; Alia is better than others in command, bravery, and wisdom, but she wants to learn from Alina, so she can only be a general in the small army or charge into the battle, and cannot command the overall situation..."

"But I'm different!" A kid who probably landed face first when he crawled out of the belly of a living saint boasted to the generals in the tent and the representatives of the dwarf observation group:

"I have used my troops in an extraordinary way, like an antelope with horns hanging on its head and running wildly, making it impossible for the enemy to guess. When I march calmly, it is like a forest slowly unfolding; when I attack a city and seize land, it is as swift as a raging fire; when I garrison and defend, it is like a mountain that is hard to shake; when the military situation is concealed, it is like a dark cloud covering the sun, making it difficult for the enemy to figure it out; when the army attacks, it is like thunder and lightning and mountains rolling down! I use the strong to attack the weak, and the many to defeat the few, and always use the enemy's strengths to attack the enemy's weaknesses! That's why I am invincible in attack and in battle. This is why I have a single mind!"

"This is how I use my troops!"

Al sighed and shared his experience as a commander with everyone.

A sound of people gasping for air came from inside the tent, bringing a wave of coolness to the dry badlands.

The dwarves' evaluation of the leader of the Alliance has now evolved from "a good man, a good brother who can fight" to "worship".

He really is...

You are such a boaster!

But it's so damn handsome!

132: Black Rock Castle

Bragging and boasting about one's own achievements is not something to be ashamed of in the dwarven culture.

On the contrary, bragging about yourself as if you are unique, bragging about yourself to the heavens and the earth - the most important thing is to base it on the actual situation, and to make the bragging so shocking that everyone gives a thumbs up and drinks heartily, and to become an indispensable atmosphere regulator for a party or a campfire. It is an indispensable experience in the life of a dwarf.

And Al obviously achieved this, and also gained the invisible blessing of his past achievements, which made the dwarves give him thumbs up and praise him.

For Al, he not only convinced his allies with his outstanding performance, but also enjoyed the joy of appearing in front of others, and at the same time killed the boredom of marching in the badlands.

It’s a win-win-win situation.

Just as the tent was bustling with activity and everyone was feasting and drinking, a voice suddenly sounded from behind Al.

"what about me?"

Without even turning his head, Al's smug expression was quickly replaced with a serious one, and he said, "The so-called thunder and wind, starting later but arriving first, separation and reunion, unpredictable, using lightness and speed to defeat the enemy; this is the military situation, using force to defeat cleverness, moving forward without hesitation, brave (reckless) to overcome everything - you are the master of military situation!"

Alina happily held her adopted son in her arms, picked up the large wine glass from the table in front of her and drank it all in one gulp, which made the members of the Dwarf Observation Group cheer. Then she simply put down the wine glass and leaned over, passing the wine in her mouth to his lips.

And El had long been accustomed to the passionate way centaurs sometimes expressed their emotions. Although he was a little shy in front of strangers, who was El - how could he be embarrassed by this?

He decisively reached back and climbed onto the centaur girl's broad back, and the two of them began to kiss in the tent as if no one was around.

The dwarves didn't care and continued to brag and drink. The Alliance also didn't have any opinion on the intimacy between the King and the Queen (Queen).

If the timing wasn't wrong and there were other people around, perhaps this adoptive mother and son, who didn't look like "mother and son" at all, would have started having sex in the tent right there and then.

The expedition to the badlands was full of vast desert plains, which stimulated the Centaurs' free nature of chasing and galloping. Alina had previously tactfully proposed to Al: Do you want to go for a race alone as mother and son? It was a naked hint.

She knew that the timing was not right, and El didn't really like this way of playing, so she was only a little tactful on this point. At other times, when the centaur was "hungry", she would usually come directly to El to ask for today's share of "filial piety". However, it was obvious that after the military banquet was over, El would continue to refresh the achievement mark of the centaur.

Currently, the location of the Eastern Expedition Army is roughly on the midline between Everlook Fort and Iron Rock. This is far away from the activity range of the Dwarf Fortress. Only a very small number of rangers and scout troops with special missions may be active here. Otherwise, ordinary teams will not easily cross this line.

Generally speaking, greenskins rarely go to the north. Even since the Great War, they have been hitting the wall in the Dwarf Fortress there for hundreds of years and have long lost interest in these places. They are hard and difficult to deal with, and there are few chances to get close to the wall. Basically, they will be covered by long-range attacks and a large number of their manpower will be wiped out before they can reach the city wall, thus losing the possibility of siege.

However, as a large number of greenskins gathered in the northern Badlands and the middle section of the Endless Mountains, and the terrible battle at Black Rock Castle not only caused the dwarves to continuously consume a large amount of manpower and material resources, but also made the greenskins, who were warlike by nature, feel that it was "not waaaagh enough, and boring", and turned to other places to seek a hearty battle.

The gathered greenskin warband that the Alliance Legion had just destroyed showed this sign. According to their wandering route, they would obviously go to Everlook Fort and clash with the defenders there, at least to get their swords, guns, sticks and clubs stained with blood.

As the war on the front line becomes stalemate, this situation will become more and more obvious. The greenskins have a natural sense of war. An army that is not hiding, marching in a mighty manner, and taking an extremely aggressive posture to hunt down all enemies that enter its strike range will inevitably attract the "intuitive" perception of a large number of greenskins.

"I think there's a fight going on over there!"

Then, in the vast badlands, waaaaagh hit the face of Aiel's Eastern Expedition Army - and then, like waves hitting reefs, it was shattered into pieces.

Of course, there is also a certain probability that a huge wave with enough power will gather to smash the obstacles in its way?

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Black Rock Castle.

The former dwarf stronghold, located in the middle of Death Pass, controls the passage from the Dark Land into the Badlands. It is now the front line of confrontation between the Dwarf Allies and the Greenskin Chaos Camp.

After the dwarves completed the recovery of lost territory in the north, they rested for a period of time and then sent out a large army to the south again to recover the more important lost territories there.

After the Battle of Longbeard, for the declining Mountain Kingdom, a war involving tens of thousands of people was a war worth remembering and singing about for a long time. Once it reached this level, it would often determine the gain or loss of a key fortress and was related to the settlement of dozens of records in the Book of Hatred.

There are as many as 30,000 dwarves on the front line of Black Rock Castle.

There are also human allies that are several times larger than this, with a scale of up to 100,000 people. In the past, such a large-scale mercenary army was almost unimaginable, but today, with the empire's population booming, the dwarves are restricted from recruiting more "Ten Gold Crown" warriors for themselves. According to the dwarves' precise calculations, hiring a farmer from the empire, not counting wages and pensions, a departure fee, a training fee for the imperial officials, bringing him safely to the badlands, and providing him with a set of simple but sufficient weapons, is ten gold coins, so they are called "Ten Gold Crown Soldiers."

There is only the transportation capacity and the support of the Imperials.

The court itself would not prohibit the large-scale "export" of its own people to foreign countries to earn money, but it was not very accepting of it either. There were still some considerations of "the dignity of a great country" and "the majesty of the law"...

Even those who were willing to take risks in the mountains were mostly "vagrants" and "poor people" in the empire, and almost all of them were landless people who had lost the land on which they could settle down. Without this opportunity, they might die of exhaustion, hunger and cold in factories or cities one day.

It is somewhat similar to the British who did not save the people themselves during the Great Famine in Ireland, nor did they allow others to save them. This is a great lack of virtue.

......

A dwarf camp built on a hill, with a giant mobile chariot as its base, which looks like it has been magnified dozens of times.

"It seems that our allies have unique ideas." Aladdin Whitebeard, the second Supreme King elected by the Mountain Assembly since the Great War and the current Supreme King, took off his helmet and held it in his arms, holding up the map on the low table.

His outstanding deputy, Salam Ironhammer, a dwarf general who had gained many military merits against the greenskins, clamped a chess piece with a long pole and placed it in a place east of Everlook on the map.

"Based on the last communication, they should be here now," said Salam, a dwarf general with thick black hair and beard. He was no more than a hundred years old, and even considered a "young man" among the dwarves. He said carefully, "Should we send another letter to invite the King of the Alliance to bring his army to Black Rock Castle?"

He said seriously, "We just need a fresh force like this to launch a full-scale attack and wipe out all those filthy bastards on our ancestors' land."

"Grom Golding and his men have specifically praised the Alliance's combat effectiveness, saying they can fight against at least three times the number of greenskins. If they come to Black Rock Castle, we can completely and once and for all eliminate the main force of the greenskins on the front battlefield."

The general's proposal was very tempting, but the High King did not hesitate to shake his head and reject his proposal. He said:

"The king of the alliance is an honest man. He sent me a photo stone and recorded a video, telling me his plan for this war." The High King tapped the helmet in his hand lightly and placed it on the sand table.

"He said his army is good at direct battles and will not come to Black Rock Castle for the time being. They will chase the greenskins from the periphery to attract firepower and reduce the pressure on our side. At the same time, he suggested to me that perhaps we can appropriately reduce some of the pressure on the enemy in front of us. If the greenskins do not fight for a long time, they will cause internal strife. It may be much better to attack then."

133: Sadness, Green Skin, Sadness

"The ancestral land is right before our eyes! How long will the dwarves have to wait..." Salam sighed. After retaking Black Rock Castle, the dwarves had a crucial forward base, and they could march towards the Eight Peaks Mountain that countless tribesmen had longed for.

Salam Ironhammer seems to have the same surname as the legendary dwarf, King Belegar Ironhammer of the Ironhammer clan, but the latter is a direct descendant of Angrond, the ruling family of the Eight Peaks, while Salam is only from a remote branch of the Ironhammer clan.

But this has nothing to do with any surname, bloodline, or past. The Eight Peaks were once glorious, wealthy, and powerful, and only the Eternal Peak could rival them. It was the most prosperous city in the Golden Age of the Dwarves and one of the greatest kingdoms.

No dwarf could refuse the opportunity to retake the Eight Peaks Fortress. Over the past three thousand years, the Angrand clan, which had lost their land, had launched countless expeditions to retake their homeland, but all of them ended in tragedy.

Only before the Great War did the king [Belegar Ironhammer] win his first victory in the war to recover his homeland, but then he was caught in a three-way melee with the green-skinned ratmen, and was eventually killed by the legendary ratman warlord Queek Headhunter of the Moss clan. The latter was beaten by the then Dwarf High King Thorgrin during the siege of Karaz a Karak, while reciting the records in the Book of Hate in a duel. Finally, after Belegar Ironhammer's name was recited, the ratman's neck was crushed by the High King's bare hands.

These histories are as vivid as yesterday to every dwarf living in this great era.

Perhaps there will never be a better opportunity than now to regain lost ground.

The two major enemies of the Dwarves - the Skaven - were almost wiped out in the Old World, while the Greenskins were constantly beaten up, their manpower advantage was offset, and the technological gap continued to widen, leading to their decline.

However, the size of the dwarves themselves has increased tremendously. At the same time, the dwarves' allies - even if they did not fulfill their duties as an ally for various reasons, they could buy the services of nearly 200,000 mercenaries since the Northern War just by spending money. This was something that was difficult to imagine in the past.

Humanity's advantages were fully liberated after the Great War.

Born!

Born!

They continued to expand their population at a speed far more exaggerated than the reproduction and growth of spores of beastmen, quickly filling up the ruins of the past and continuously reclaiming new land from nature.

In this situation, even if they had no intention of providing support, the human support they would receive in exchange for a little "fur scraps" and "body tissue" that fell from this behemoth called the "Empire" would be enough for the dwarves to laugh out loud.

......

"Have faith in our friends." The High King stroked the map with his fingers, gently touching the city that he had never seen with his own eyes, but seemed to have seen countless times in his memory, in his dreams, and in the call of his blood.

The great fortress that symbolizes the Golden Age of the Dwarves...

Salam frowned and looked at the chess piece on the map that represented the strength of Ai'er's army. "Excuse me, Your Majesty, but we'd better be wary of this enthusiastic friend."

"We have never had any intersection. He has never received any help from the dwarves, and we have not actively asked him for reinforcements... I have heard some bad news about the King of Haste from the people in the South Camp. Maybe it is exaggerated, but I think it is best to be careful." After Salam finished speaking, he looked at his king. The Eternal Guards of the High King were standing guard inside and outside the commander's camp, and there were more than two Rune Masters who made sure the High King was in their sight at all times to ensure that nothing would threaten the High King, who was also the commander-in-chief of the army.

Aladdin nodded, agreeing with the first half of Salam's words:

"Yes, we didn't ask him for reinforcements, but he came with all his strength... You are right. We can't take risks with the dwarves' cause, so we must be vigilant and prepared. But I believe in this king who is a little different from what I imagined."

"He is a good man, and the Southern Alliance will definitely be a trustworthy ally under his leadership. Let's wait and see." The Supreme King patted his breastplate and looked around. The clan leader, the rune lord, the general's adjutant...

The High King's tone suddenly became passionate:

"Compatriots!"

“We are only two steps away from great achievements! But the closer we get to dawn, the thicker the darkness becomes! Let us use the tenacity and silence of the dwarves, ignore all hardships and challenges, and overcome and survive this period! Bread, beer, flowers, cheers, and the recognition of our ancestors are waiting for us on the other side!”

"Starting tomorrow, stop the ground attack on the enemy, send out all the airships, and use bombing to make the barbaric enemy experience the wrath of the dwarves!"

The High King's inner thought actually echoed Aiur's strategy: to prevent the greenskins from fighting, so that they would lose interest in staying in one place and then run out to find another place to start waaaaagh.

With sufficient logistics and well-built positions, the dwarves are not afraid of the greenskins' all-out attack. Instead, they hope they will do so, because this will only cause these barbaric enemies to be killed continuously under the dwarves' iron defenses.

However, this will slightly shift the pressure to the allies... Although the greenskins' range of activities is largely pinned to the Black Rock Fort line, the dwarves are insufficient in strength and cannot control the entire surrounding area, so they still have a lot of paths to go to other places. However, to the north is the Thunder Fort, which is built into an iron wall, and to the north is the Eternal Peak. To the west is the Great Desolate Plain of the Badlands. If they really want to find someone, they can only go to the Sea Gate Pass with its fleet and terrain advantages... The greenskins can't bite any place.

When the main force cannot disperse.

According to the intelligence from the dwarves, don't be surprised. The greenskins now have a large number of ogre mercenaries, chaos beastmen, even necromancers, and some badland thugs and scum involved. They have eaten the flesh of their own kind, and to some extent they can no longer be considered human beings, so they may naturally be accepted by the monsters.

These people are not necessarily united. Some of them may have joined the greenskins because they were tempted by the mountain dwarves with benefits. These things are also a secret known to very few people among the dwarves. Only those "dwarves who are not like dwarves" can accept such means.

Now, in front of the greenskin warband of the dwarves, the warlord does not have enough prestige to suppress and control the entire warband.

Under its command, or in other words, behind it, the treacherous and cunning goblin warriors formed a structure similar to the human "shadow cabinet". Goblins are mean, cunning, and cruel, but they are indeed more "intelligent" and perhaps more emotional than the big greenskins. For example, the legendary night goblin Skarsnik, the warrior of Eight Peaks, would take the initiative to take care of his companions and regard his Squig mount companion as his only hope. After its death, he even made a unique performance of the greenskins:

Disheartened, he abandoned his tribe and gang and left the battlefield alone and sadly.

These cunning goblins knew that allowing the dwarves to continue moving south would not be good for them, so they were very active in curbing the dwarves and launching a super-large waaaaagh to enhance their own prestige.

With the "skills" of these goblins - yes, the skills of the greenskins, they struggled to launch, or "shape" a big Wa BOSS who could barely maintain this super huge force, and then relied on murder and rumors to help the warlord eliminate competitors, because the new big guy might not be able to tolerate such a group of goblins around him, chattering all kinds of things.

This gang was barely able to maintain its integrity, without frequent conflicts or chaos.

In the more than 100 years after the Great War, the Greenskins, in the words of Aiel, saw their heroic spirit decline.

There have been no famous legendary characters.

The most recent one should be the one whose name seems to be a "tribute" to a legendary wise man in the history of the Zhendan Dynasty, the green-skinned warlord who served as a mortal prime minister, Maoliang Feilong.

The latter is as odd among greenskin warlords as the Captain of Eight Peaks is among goblins.

As a greenskin leader, he didn't think about hacking and killing along the way, but actually thought about establishing a kingdom where greenskins and other intelligent life could coexist. He wanted to be a warlord and the king of humans at the same time. It was simply bizarre.

But unfortunately, he ran into Al who was on the rise.

Of course this is a great thing for the latter.

The warlord's gang was shattered and he himself disappeared...

If it had not gone to Estalia but stayed in the Badlands, maybe the greenskins would have a powerful warlord in charge, and the situation would be much better than it is now. Maybe Aiur would come to support Thunder Fort and Eternal Peak instead of the dwarves blocking Black Rock Fort...

Alas! But if Gollum comes again, Grimgor will rise again!

Even if the dragon was still alive! Why did the greenskins come to this? Why did they come to this? (Sad voice)

134: Battle of Iron Rock

Maybe in some timeline where there is no Al.

The Waaaagh raised by Gao Maoliang successfully destroyed Estalia, and then overwhelmed the Tyrells. Its huge warband did not turn the Southern Kingdom into a scorched earth ruin because of its extraordinary skills compared to a greenskin. Instead, by temporarily securing the slaves and using the threat of the butcher's knife, the warband of the warlord obtained the resources of the South and became even larger than before.

Afterwards, knowing that his "hometown" was beaten and in order to satisfy the greenskins' desire for war, Gao Maoliang would most likely lead his army that was ready for battle to march eastward, whether it was to break through the border princes' territory and attack Haimen Pass and Eternal Peak; or to cross the sea and land directly in the Badlands and attack Black Rock Castle. Anyway, the Badlands were like going home for the greenskins.

When such a powerful enemy suddenly joins the battlefield, the balance of war will be reversed in an instant. With the resources extracted from the south and the most important thing for the greenskins - a warlord with great prestige and unmatched prestige as the commander-in-chief.

Maybe the current situation will be reversed, with the dwarves retreating and the greenskins besieging the Eternal Peak...