Warhammer

Soon, an envoy from the "Alliance" arrived at Gao Maoliang's camp under the guidance of the pirates. The pirates searched him thoroughly from head to toe to confirm that he had no hidden weapons before allowing him to meet the warlord face to face.

The pirates' actions were very rough, and it was obvious that they were trying to embarrass and anger the envoy, but the latter looked calm and composed, showing no dissatisfaction at being made difficult for him.

After all the procedures were completed, he stepped forward and said loudly:

"My king asked me to ask about the well-being of the warlord. I hope the warlord Feilong is doing well!"

After he finished speaking, he touched his chest, bowed, and saluted to Gao Maoliang who was at the top.

Gao Maoliang scratched his chin, showing no emotion on his face, and suddenly waved his hand:

"Chop up this meat and shrimp and use it as a side dish!"

The black orc guards on the side immediately walked towards the young man representing the alliance with battle axes in hand. No expression could be seen on his face covered with an iron helmet and mask, but signs of murderous intent could be seen from his movements alone.

The young man was neither arrogant nor impatient in the face of the threat of death. Instead, he touched his chest and bowed, saying in a deep voice:

"Your Majesty sent me to tell you:

The great warlord used to be able to break the river with a whip and conquer the southern country. He had the spirit of a hero... Now, in just a few years, he has gathered 300,000 soldiers and made a comeback. He is marching across the border and has the same momentum as before... But do you know?"

"The warlord is in danger now!!! (You are not far from death)"

"Bang!" A heavy punch hit the armrest.

The black orc soldier who was about to raise his battle axe stopped and stood there like a statue.

Gao Maoliang grinned, with a cold light flashing in his eyes.

"That guy who is as cunning as a goblin sent you to declare war on me? He dares to threaten Go Maoliang? Threaten Go Maoliang Feilong!" The warlord stood up. He still had an army of more than 200,000 outside the city of Mirmidon. If Ai'er wanted to disgust it for the second time through intimidation or the same cunning means of showing weakness as before, then it could give up the difficult Mirmidon and go south to test the quality of the alliance.

The atmosphere in the tent immediately became solemn.

As long as the warlord gives the order, the surrounding greenskins, who are more ferocious than tigers and wolves, will immediately tear this human shrimp into pieces.

But the man just calmly began to bring the big warlord...

Advice from successful people!

"My Lord is well aware of the wishes of the great warlord..."

He stood in front of the greenskin, talking eloquently, and at the same time presented a letter from Aiur, which brought Gao Maoliang an unimagined path.

Although this news came from Al, who had deceived Gao Maoliang once and ruined his career which was just a few steps away from success, it did make Gao Maoliang start to think about the feasibility of seeking another path for his big plan.

The possibility of establishing a "barbarian kingdom" outside the Old World (north of Haimen Pass and west of the Endless Mountains).

In the letter, Al first expressed his apology for fooling Mao Liang last time, but he also proudly described his achievements to it, and declared that the warlord should know as long as he is wise:

Mao Liang will never be able to gain a foothold in the Old World by slaughtering people and establish the order it wants, because order is not a force that can be enslaved and destroyed by the butcher's knife.

Moreover, the nature of the greenskin race makes it difficult for the warlord to complete his plan.

If it wants to establish a country, the most basic thing it needs is bureaucrats serving it, and the greenskins are obviously not capable of this. As for selecting them from the surrendered humans...the big warlords cannot make the greenskins respect the authority represented by these "shrimp that can be easily crushed".

In the letter, Al admitted that even if the warlord's war in the border prince's territory proceeded smoothly, its barbaric kingdom would be an extremely divided country, and humans and greenskins would not be able to coexist in the true sense without one ethnic group having absolute advantage.

Moreover, as part of the order, no matter whether it is the Empire, Dwarves, Elves, or Alliance, they will not sit idly by and watch Mao Liang develop.

So why not choose to blaze a new trail?

Change the track and everything will become clear.

The Southland south of the Land of Death Nehekhara has the most extensive tropical forest in the world after the shattering of Lustria. The abundant resources are enough to support Gao Maoliang to develop his own country in the south. If he seeks the power of civilization, then there is a very vast area of ​​land between the two mountain ranges to the east of the Endless Mountains and the west of the Mountains of Sorrow, which is no less suitable for development than the land in the Old World.

Dark place.

It was a place where the Chaos Dwarf Empire, Ogre Kingdom, hobgoblins, greenskins and undead were once very active.

The whole is in a state of chaos, disorder and vitality.

If divided by the nine-square grid of camps, it is undoubtedly an area that tends to be chaotic evil and chaotic neutral. There is the Anxi Garrison established by the Zhendan Dynasty and the Dragon Island Colony of the elves. Heroes from all over the world often come here to participate in the event.

After all, when it comes to resources, the Dark Land between the two mountain ranges is much richer than the Barren Land (Bad Land).

Moreover, there are no particularly powerful forces around, and most of them are fearful of power rather than morality. This is just right for Mao Liang to develop the "order established by the butcher's knife". Anyway, the Chaos Dwarves have already done it once. If Mao Liang optimizes it and learns from it, can't he use it anyway?

Chaos dwarves can train orc slaves into hard labor. If the dwarves can do it, can't the greenskins do it? Then the greens will rule the humans, and the humans will rule the greens. A slave-based militarized Zerg Empire, for sure...

If a warlord succeeds in opening up the Dark Land, he can cross mountains and rivers to the south to fight the skeletons of the Tomb King, go to the north to beat up the Chaos Dwarves who are trying to rebuild the empire, and further north are the Yankees who believe in evil gods.

In the letter, Al stated that as long as Gao Maoliang was willing to give up the attack on the border prince's territory and lead his troops eastward, he would try to make the dwarves, the border, and the alliance adopt a tacit attitude towards this matter. As long as Gao Maoliang no longer formally attacked any of the above three parties, he could do his best to facilitate Gao Maoliang's troops to safely cross the Blackwater Bay and return to the Badlands, and then the warlord could try to launch an eastward expedition to explore and conquer the dark land.

After it officially establishes itself in that land with a sulfurous smell and rich in various mineral resources, Aiur will be the first to recognize Gao Maoliang's "barbaric kingdom". As long as the other party can make its attitude clear, it will fight against the threat of chaos that destroys everything at the necessary time in the future. He is even willing to help the greenskins and the dwarves and the empire to make a formal contact. After all, chaos is the biggest threat to the world...

The Alliance is willing to trade with it, provide food, supplies, and technology, all of which are fine, as long as Gao Maoliang does not set his sights on the already "full track" of the western part of the Old Continent. Even if Gao Maoliang, who is as "smart" as Ai'er, develops and wants to go on an "armed pilgrimage" to Zhendan, Ai'er will definitely not say a word - are you kidding me, the Emperor's Earth-Shattering Fist is called for nothing?

No matter how many there are, they will be powerless against the power of higher dimensions.

No matter how many ants there are, they cannot shake the giant. If the giant cannot defeat the ants, he can still use tools or run away.

If Mao Liang really wanted to provoke Zhendan, Al would really like to see the person he is very concerned about and curious about:

The commander-in-chief of the cavalry, who was given the title of Grand General of the Imperial Court, and who wore a sword and shoes when entering the palace without bowing or prostrating... She was the eldest daughter of the Dragon Emperor in the human world, the regent of Zhendan, the commander-in-chief of the army of all countries, the lord of the northern provinces, the violent gale, and the flaming jade dragon.

Meow Shadow (crossed out).

Your Highness Miaoying, will you lead the troops to the west to fight against the greenskins who have invaded our border?

Mao Liang cannot develop his system in the Old Continent, otherwise it will be too terrible if it snowballs. Before the Chaos Disaster comes, the order of the Old Continent will be severely damaged.

But in the Dark Land, this threat is much smaller. Without the support of advanced productivity, the speed and upper limit of the greenskins' development will be greatly restricted, which is a good thing for the Order.

Find an opponent for the Chaos Dwarves and Undead in the Dark Land, and make Mao Liang, as a unique existence among the Greenskins, want to provide an insurance for the Greenskins, a race that only knows how to rush, so that they can turn around. Compared with a "traditional" Greenskin warlord like Grimgor Ironhide, the threat to order is much smaller before it develops to the end.

If another greenskin had led this army to attack the border, Matoka, Zorak and other places would have been reduced to ruins by now, with bones exposed in the wild and no roosters crowing for thousands of miles. Unlike now, they have at least retained most of their vitality.

If Gao Maoliang is really willing to go to the Dark Land, after all, the greenskins are a race that is not affected by corruption, and the "order" that Gao Maoliang wants to establish is naturally opposed to the camp of destruction, perhaps in the future they can still be a force that can unite to fight against chaos.

But the final say lies in Gao Maoliang's hands. Al is only sending a suggestion that is in the interests of all parties to this old rival who has created two great opportunities for him.

As for whether to do it or not, that is up to Mao Liang.

......

The only sound in the tent was breathing.

The human servants who served the warlord looked at each other in bewilderment. They could not imagine that the king, who had already become famous in the Old World and had a glorious image that was well-known, would actually make such a fantastic suggestion to a green-skinned warlord.

He actually expressed his willingness to support the greenskins to establish a nation? !

This is not some palace intrigue or political struggle. This is a sensational news all over the world!

In the letter that Al wrote to Gao Maoliang, the last paragraph was full of "emotional sincerity":

The sky is divided into north and south, and the earth is divided into east and west. How can ordinary people be controlled by this? Moreover, the greenskins are a widespread race, from Zhendan in the east to Hancheng in the west, and they are everywhere. The big warlords have the ambition to create a new world and make a breakthrough, so why should they be confined to the south?

He cosplayed (this is not really cosplay) the semi-literate writing style of Aurora's "elegant language". If a real Aurora scholar read it, his brows would be furrowed. But for Gao Maoliang, who also... uh, only learned a rough outline of Aurora knowledge and was green-skinned a lot, and could be regarded as half "blind", it was very "catchy" and "simple and easy to understand".

Al was afraid that the warlord would misunderstand him, so he even told the envoy about it orally and asked him to repeat it when the time came to avoid misleading Mao Liang.

"Only heaven and earth are divided into east, south, west and north. How can mortals be restricted by geography? Moreover, your people are widely distributed all over the world... The great warlord has the ambition to open up unprecedented undertakings and change the greenskin traditions. Why must he be in the south when he can't do it anywhere?"

"East of the Endless Mountains, the sky is high and the land is vast. The situation there is as chaotic as a whirlpool and a storm, with shrimps and giant beasts mixed together. It is a perfect place for heroes like you to stretch their fists and feet and make great achievements."

"The great warlord has such talent. If he learns the way of education from the Dragon Empire, he will surely be able to lead the greenskins out of the ranks of 'natural scourge' and 'mad beasts' one day, and make them a race accepted by the world like the naturalized orcs."

"......"

"The great warlords go east, stop the undead, and slay Chaos. When the threat of destruction comes again in the future, you and I may be able to unite our forces to complete the feat of saving the world. By then, the greenskin country will stand on the earth, east, west, north, south, and center, and each country will dominate in one direction. After that, we can make plans for competition. Isn't that good?"

"I have deceived the warlord once before, but it was because you were powerful and I was weak, so I had to use strategy to make up for the lack of combat power. I won by luck, and I am really ashamed."

"Today, you and I have not yet come to blows. All my words are sincere, as if I were to cut open my body and expose my internal organs. I hope you can consider it carefully. The sky is above our heads, the earth is under our feet, and the world is witness to what I say..."

“I hope your career will be successful and accepted by the world.”

"Al, written in Iron Rock to the most special greenskin in the world, and also the most formidable opponent he has ever encountered [Gao Maoliang Feilong], the greenskin warlord"

......

The man finished his words quickly, and the rest was the time for the warlord to read the letter himself.

There is no doubt that Gao Maoliang can read and write. It can even recognize dwarven runes.

Otherwise, Al would definitely record a projection and send it over.

There was silence in the tent.

The greenskins... they don't understand what I mean, but they listen to the warlord anyway. If he wants to kill them, he will kill them with a knife, and if he wants to keep them, he will throw them away. As real "greenskins", they are also Gao Maoliang's most trusted guards. They will not think for WaBOSS unless they receive orders.

And those human servants did not have much say in the warband. Even though some of them were attracted by the barbaric kingdom in the dark land described in the letter from the King of the Alliance, the warlord knew the character of these people and did not believe in their loyalty. The greenskins gave them shelter and wealth, and they contributed their strength to the warlord alone, and that was enough.

So for more than ten minutes in a row, the troops attacking the city were replaced one by one, but the warlord's tent was still as silent as night.

Everything of the war gang depends on Gao Maoliang alone. Unless he takes the initiative to ask, no one else has the right to speak.

After another moment of silence, Mao Liang finally turned his eyes away from the letter, looked at the man in front of him, and asked in a dull voice:

"who are you?"

The young man straightened up immediately, his eyes lit up with pride, and he said loudly:

"I am his offspring. I am the blade of Aiur."

Gao Maoliang did not comment. He still remembered that when he was in Estalia, the opponent was a father-son combination. Every time he asked about the opponent's generals, those outstanding warriors basically had a label of "Son of El".

This made it feel a little unhappy again, and it waved.

"Gege Maoge said...I won't kill you, go back to where you came from."

The young man did not say much, but simply asked, "Does the warlord have any message for me to pass on to my father?"

Mao Liang grinned, and that scary face, which could be described as "majestic" from a human's perspective, actually showed an expression similar to a "smile".

It waved its hand and ignored the young man. Naturally, two guards came over and took the envoy of the alliance away from the greenskin camp.

Mao Liang still held the letter in his hand, staring into the void and thinking.

And the siege of Myrmidon continued.

175: Battle of Black Rock

"Show your enemies the wrath of iron and fire! Son of the mountains! Heir of our ancestors!"

"Khazukan Kazakit-ha!" (Dwarven War Cry)

The neatly-organized dwarf army let out a thunderous roar. Holding a heavy "long" shield in one hand and a battle axe in the other, they assembled amid the roar of artillery.

High King Aladdin Whitebeard stood atop his moving chariot, reviewing the legions of his fellow mountain kingdoms.

"Today, countless people will die here!" Although Aladdin looked very proud, he couldn't hide the sadness in his heart, but it soon turned into a heroic praise:

"Heroes have no fear of death!"

As Gao Maoliang advanced across the border in his second attempt to establish his barbaric kingdom, the decisive battle of Black Rock Castle in the badlands, which had been in a stalemate for nearly two years, finally kicked off its grand prelude.

This is destined to be a battle that will go down in world history, and after the smoke clears, the Book of Hatred is destined to face additions and deletions of all sizes.

The High King controls the largest concentration of dwarven troops south of the Eternal Peak, and the only army available for the southern front's campaign to recover lost territory.

The mobile forces of the Mountain Kingdom are now roughly divided into three parts. One is stationed in the Northern Endless Mountains to the north of the Eternal Peak to stabilize this land; an expeditionary force went to the colder north, in the Giant Mountains of Norsca, to support the dwarves of Dulong City to regain their homes. They received support from the Kislevites and tried to clear the land between the Eastern State of the Ice and Snow Kingdom and Dulong City, so that Kislev's homeland would be completely free from direct threats from the east and north.

The last part is the 34,000 dwarf warriors under the command of the High King, who are also the most elite group. Together with more than 100,000 human mercenaries, they form the Southern Legion in the Reconquista.

Under the leadership of the contemporary Supreme King Aladdin Whitebeard, the Southern Legion adopted a steady and cautious strategy, advancing step by step, compressing the greenskins' activity space, using valuable ammunition and supplies instead of priceless lives to consume the greenskins' manpower, and finally recovered and cleared Karak Thunder Fort and the surrounding lands, and then temporarily gave up attacking the Iron Rock at the junction of the plains and mountains. After opening up the earth vein network, they chose to attack the more important "Karak Draz", which is now Black Rock Fort.

The terrain of this fortress is very important. It is located in the middle of the Endless Mountains. It is half natural and half carved by the dwarves. Its original name has been forgotten, but it is now called "Mad Dog Pass" or "Death Pass" because this precious trade route was once full of greenskin bandits who robbed and fought like mad dogs.

If they can recapture Black Rock Keep, the dwarves can rely on this city to block the large-scale migration of greenskins from the southern mountains to the north, and slowly eliminate the greenskins causing chaos in Death Pass. After ensuring the safe passage of this trade route, the caravans traveling east and west will soon turn this place into a "Golden Pass".

But the dwarves are stable, and the greenskins are not pure beasts who sit and wait to die. Those cunning goblin warriors unite and "create" a "famous" warlord, who calls on an unprecedented, defensive Waaaagh to gather at Black Rock Castle. They keep digging along the passages and caves left over from the past, making the fortress and its surrounding areas bumpy, and full of hiding holes and underground passages for the greenskins.

In addition, Black Rock Castle itself is a very solid fortress. The walls are made of huge metal and stone, tall and solid, with a large number of powerful fortifications and military facilities inside. Its underground is rich and precious mineral veins. It is said that the greenskins used these in exchange for the "paid services" of the Chaos Dwarves and the mercenaries of the Ogre Kingdom, otherwise they would never have been able to confront the Dwarves here for so long.

During the long confrontation, the military expenditure spent by the dwarves alone was an astronomical figure. If this money was given to Al, it would be enough to complete plans 35 and 45, let alone plan 13 and plan 23. He was even willing to abstain from sex for half a year and sleep among piles of money during this time.

Only the Kingdom of Mountains, with its great ambitions, can afford such a confrontation. If it were the Empire, it would probably be in great trouble.

The dwarves have almost built a new city outside Black Rock Castle, right under the enemy's noses. In this way, they are not afraid of being attacked from behind. As long as the situation changes a little, the dwarves can instantly change from being the attackers to the defenders. Given the dwarves' expertise in defense and the fact that they are elite troops led by the High King himself, it would be difficult for the greenskins to defeat them without ten times the number of troops.

Perhaps Mao Liang chose not to come to Black Rock Castle for this reason. If he comes and cannot accomplish anything, then it would be a waste of time.

Ai'er's entry into the game to some extent destroyed the "balance" that had lasted for more than a year. He captured Black Crag and beat up the greenskins who had split off to cause trouble, which made the morale of the greenskins in Black Crag even lower and boosted the morale of the dwarves. They all believed that the decisive battle and the opportunity for victory were not far away.

Today is the day.