Warhammer

Especially when the capital is not strong, Al wishes he could deploy his troops before every battle, pause at any time during the battle, make superluminal brain wave communications to his subordinates without delay, and by the way, micro-control individuals in real time.

But this is obviously impossible.

He is the chosen one of God, not the Zerg Overlord, and he commands a band of Beastmen, not the Tyranids.

All he could do was to prepare everything he could think of before the war, and try to prepare an army with nine out of ten capabilities to fight the enemy. At the same time, he had to observe the battlefield in real time through the blessing of omniscience and a few powerful individuals whose vision could be shared with El, and control the overall situation.

The Wrathhorns obeyed Aiur's orders very well. These beasts, who were just as eager for bloodshed as the greenskins, and even more eager for bloodshed under the inspiration of faith, waited until the greenskins had been unable to advance the front line for some time before entering the battlefield.

The four big red-haired guys were a considerable force on this extremely small battlefield where the two sides had only a hundred people in total. Not only did they quickly stabilize the situation on the center line, but after they cooperated in succession to kill three greenskins, the enemy's morale showed signs of being shaken.

The two wings where the greenskins' forces were more vulnerable were also beginning to show signs of fatigue, and soon, this insignificant battle among many large and small battles taking place at the same time in the Pina Forest came to an end.

The greenskins were defeated, and after most of them were killed or injured, only less than ten of them were left, screaming and fleeing.

The militia also hurriedly began their post-war repairs, making sure that there were no other enemies nearby and that they would not be suddenly attacked.

Clean up the battlefield, collect the bodies of comrades and useful supplies, and then after a short respite, rush to the nearest battlefield and resume fighting.

They are a little tired, but the most severe life and death tests and the most dangerous enemies have been shared by the beastmen of the tribe. What complaints can the mortal army have?

Because of the special terrain of the dense forest and the loose nature of the greenskins, they cannot form a group to advance and retreat, and can only move loosely, "Waaagh in this direction, flee in this direction." And this dispersion is destined to make their queues become wider and more scattered before they encounter a Waaaagh target that is strong enough to attract the attention of all the surrounding greenskins.

This gives the tribe an opportunity to outnumber the enemy when they are at a numerical disadvantage.

However, because the greenskins were too scattered, not to mention the greenskins' own commander, even if Al turned on the fog of war, he could not completely monitor the battlefield and know the movements of every enemy. He also could not concentrate his strength to cut off the enemy's outstretched hands one by one.

It is also necessary to weaken the momentum of the greenskins in advance, otherwise the defense will be necessary and the pressure on the defending troops will be greater.

So Ai'er mobilized a force of three thousand Beastmen - this was more than half of the Beastmen force to be used for subsequent defense. It was equipped with nearly a hundred Shaman spellcasters and a legion of air monsters. They prepared the terrain in advance on the route of the Greenskins' advance to block the Greenskins' vanguard.

As an indestructible rock, it was constantly killed by the tribes that had almost the advantage in numbers (the ogres guarding the corners, guarding the bridges, the Dragon Emperor's chosen champion, the old farmers in the forest, and the ogres standing in groups), while it also continuously attracted scattered green ants to gather around.

The small groups of greenskins scattered in the large gaps left behind became very suitable training targets for the mortal army that Ai'er arranged.

First, through small-scale, low-intensity battles, we can boost human morale and fighting will, which is very important for subsequent combat effectiveness.

The foundation of the empire:

Steel, gunpowder, faith.

Since the first two are not worth mentioning for the time being, the third one...or for a long time, has always been the last and most important one.

Chapter 147: Battle of the Valley

The skull cannon continuously spewed out scorching air waves around, and the weeds on the ground had been scorched.

This battlefield killing weapon seemed to have its own will. It was a slaughtering weapon forged by the power of the Blood Mother. Its piercing, chilling creaking sound never stopped, as if human limbs were being stuffed into that huge beast's skull and then crushed and ground.

The violent magic power condensed in the barrel of the gun, whose material had undergone a transformation and was not like that of mortal matter, and spewed out as a torrent of destruction, smashing the greenskin army into a mass of blurred flesh, bones and splattered blood.

Then more greenskins came up, filled the hole, and continued to move forward, stepping on the only remaining debris of the big guys who were so aggressive a moment ago.

Al rode on the back of the Griffin Lady, at the very center of the angry-horned beast army array, fully armed, looking down at the battlefield with cold eyes.

The strength displayed by the greenskins this time was much stronger than those he had defeated in Viling, Marus and Cheporio. More importantly, they showed better "discipline" than the ordinary greenskins.

This is very bad news for Al.

The threat posed to the tribe by 50,000 ferocious beasts with only brute strength and 50,000 fearless, brave and fighting Spartan warriors is undoubtedly a world of difference.

Although the greenskins' discipline is unlikely to reach this level, if it is improved even slightly, the difficulty and cost of defeating them will increase rapidly.

Even though they had suffered nearly twice as many casualties as the enemy, the greenskin reinforcements continued to arrive in an endless stream, and after a brief assembly and formation, they launched an attack. Their numbers were so large and their desire to fight was so strong that Aiel even had the illusion that the enemy had brought all the greenskins from Estalia here.

Al was thinking of retreating, but he felt that there were still many battles that had not yet ended in the tiny battlefields scattered throughout the vast forest, and he became hesitant again.

In fact, as the battle has continued so far, the tribal army has the upper hand in the "enemy exchange ratio", which is what Ai'er values ​​most in military terms.

The terrain of the valley is sloping, narrow at the inside and wide inside, with a high ground in the middle. Aiel and his troops set up defenses here, roaming around to attract the attention of the greenskins, and then leading them into the valley, attacking the high and wide area from the low and narrow area.

And among the three thousand angry-horned beasts that Al brought this time, almost all of them were heavily armored angry-horned beasts, defending with halberds and attacking with giant swords, shields and axes. In the case of abundant magic wind, the chanting and praying in the shaman team did not stop for a moment, continuously ensuring the enhancement of our side, the weakening of the greenskins, and the killing spells. There was always one type of spell running in the battle.

The spells in real life are not like those in games. A person who uses the power of the Wind of Gilen and the life-related magic "Forest Revival" can kill a large group of enemies with a "bang". At least, El's subordinates do not have a strong person who can release spells of that scale and power.

He himself doesn't count.

For example, in the magic of Akshay's Fire and Wind, some spells such as Akshay's Arrow, Burning Barrage, and Ash Explosion basically cause single-digit damage to the enemy.

In Al's opinion, in the absence of spells powerful enough to destroy the world and reverse the situation of the battle, the best role of the shamans is to boost morale at the faith level - however, this role has been replaced by the boy's personal presence, and the other is to use large-scale magic to increase or decrease benefits on both the enemy and us.

His Legion of Wrathhorns is the best killing weapon in this forest.

The role of spellcasters who are not yet powerful enough is to provide better maintenance assistance for these weapons, ensuring that they are sharp when killing enemies and protecting themselves.

Blood, boiling blood, the blood of both sides gathered together, and there was even a strange phenomenon of reverse flow, flowing back to the place where El was standing.

The blessing of the blood river inspires the angry-horned beasts. They are energetic, tireless, and have high morale. Their desire for battle is always high. They can continue fighting until the end of time, until the last corpse of the enemy or our side falls!

But Al no longer wanted to fight.

This was not the battlefield he had considered for the decisive battle, and his personal presence to supervise the battle was only a temporary decision.

The goal of blunting the enemy's edge has been achieved, and the losses of both sides are within a satisfactory range. Al plans to retreat.

Occupies dominance of the sky, although in forest terrain like Pina, aerial units will be subject to certain field of vision restrictions.

But on the ground, he also has a large wolf pack and beastman scout team to scout for him and expand his vision. Thanks to the beastman race's adaptability to reconnaissance and scouting operations, combined with Ai's blessing of omniscience, he can turn this war into a cheating method for us to remove the fog of war. So Ai can naturally easily discover that there is a large number of greenskin troops, about six or seven thousand, advancing towards his north on the outside of the valley, and it seems that they are planning to find the exit of the canyon to cut off his retreat.

However, Al would not be like his cosplay partner, Prime Minister Cao, who laughed when he passed by the mountain pass while withdrawing his troops home: "I laugh at the greenskins' lack of wisdom and the warlords' lack of strategy. If they ambush them here and cut off my way home, I will be dead!"

Then suddenly a green-skinned brute shouted Waaaagh and led the ambush troops to charge out. "I have been waiting for you here for a long time according to the order of the warlord!"

This is the case.

So in addition to the 3,000 men blocking the entrance, there was another 3,000-man rear army, half of which was beastmen and half were mortals, ambushing near the exit as support.

If all else fails, Al can only expose the secret of underground transmission, and the primary goal is to preserve the precious tribal power.

However, this will add variables to the decisive battle. Maybe the smart greenskin warlord who doesn't look like a greenskin will come to his senses and start playing it safe.

While he was thinking, the greenskins left behind more than a hundred corpses, while the number of fallen and seriously injured furious beasts was only in the single digits. After healing, the shamans could even work together to release the "Emerald Coffin" that had been modified by the Mother's Power to resurrect the recently deceased. Compared with the original Emerald Coffin, it was even classified as a "Necromancy" spell for manipulating corpses.

The Motherly version of the "Jade Coffin" not only preserves the memories of the resurrected, but also does not need to rely on the maintenance of the Wind of Ji Lun all the time, which is equivalent to a true resurrection.

The price is that they are never allowed to communicate with anyone again, otherwise the information about the resurrection of the dead will be leaked, and the God of Death will know it, hate him, and even attract the investigation of the Death Knights and the Church.

The enemy does not have very elite combat forces. If the opponent's commander sends his own guards, strong and disciplined black-skinned big guys with much stronger weapons and equipment, black orcs and the like, Al will have to consider letting ordinary soldiers take over and consume some of the resources first. However, he does not want to fight against the enemy with ordinary greenskins.

They directly sent four regiments of elite, heavily-armored, halberd-wielding furyhorns to the front. Given the terrain in the valley, they could not even field two regiments of eighty-eight people. To these fearless greenskins, the heavily-armored furyhorns were just high-intensity killing machines that were efficient, precise, and low-loss.

El conveyed the order to his mount, the griffin lady, the first aerial beast that he had tamed, which had now been assimilated and infected by the blessing of the boy in the process of following him, becoming more majestic and powerful, and becoming the undisputed queen of aerial beasts. The latter flapped its wings and soared into the sky. Her eldest daughter, the second griffin that El rode on, came over and stood behind the boy, replacing her mother's position.

The griffins flew quickly through the sky, shrieking and conveying their master's orders to all directions. At the same time, scouts lurking or running in the woods and flying monsters who understood the meaning of it also conveyed the orders to various places in the ways they could.

After about twenty minutes, the greenskins' offensive weakened. It seemed that the greenskins' commander planned to use another method to defeat them here.

Al was also satisfied to see that in the display of blessing, those scattered green dots began to retreat to the rear in an orderly manner, breaking away from the entanglement with the enemy.

"It's time to finish."

The boy gave orders to the wisecorn advisers standing by, and they all bowed in unison, then stepped forward and began to prepare together.

A huge spell is brewing.

It will temporarily split the terrain in the middle of the valley, creating time for Ai'er to retreat. After the overactive magic wind subsides, other forces will reintegrate and change the altered and distorted terrain.

Al took off his mask and looked outside the valley, towards the entrance.

A group of greenskin guards, who were in a black mass and had a fierce and elite aura that could be felt from afar, were following a big guy who was as burly as a troll and whose eyes were even colder and more brutal than those of ordinary greenskins, as they were preparing to step into the battlefield.

"No more fighting today!"

Al laughed and pulled over a few shamans to ask if there was any way to cast a long-range spell to get rid of the green-skinned giant who was obviously a heavyweight of the enemy. The shamans looked at the distance and said that it was still too far, and that the enemy's big commander had the strongest Waaaagh position, and it was difficult to kill him by stealing ↑↑absorbing↓ with spells.

This kind of work has to be done by El's adoptive mother, the centaur Alina, or the bull commander Alastair.

Chapter 148: Golden Great Wall Tribal Version (bushi)

Finally, amid the angry greenskins' screams, Al turned around and retreated northward.

The greenskins could only stand on the other side of the huge rift created by the spell, raging helplessly.

The elite Black Orc Guards and their commander, the burly green-skinned giant known as "Tank", "watched" these red and black enemies block the valley, inflicting heavy casualties on them before escaping unscathed.

In order to wait for the army heading north to block the exit of the valley and cut off the Beastmen's retreat, the Greenskins had previously suspended their offensive. This also gave Aiel time to rest and prepare before quickly moving forward.

They could also clean up the battlefield along the way. Although the greenskins had not been frightened by the killing and had changed from hacking to running, they would no longer continue to rush into the Chaos Halberd of the heavily armored Wrathhorn on such terrain under the restraint of the war general commander.

When Al ran away, he did not forget his stepmother... stepmother, the altar of the goddess Lilith.

When the valley blocking battle broke out, he personally airdropped with several knights and followers, and built an altar among the Beastmen army to the fifth god who appeared in the tribe, the Moonlight Maiden of the High Elves, the Lake Fairy of Bretonnia, the Mist Lady Radlily... and a large number of other gods whose identities even El didn't know, the goddess Lilith.

The Everchosen announced that all the military exploits and honors obtained in this bloody battle were sacrifices to the goddess.

Then he would personally supervise the battle, so that the four mother goddesses who played big chess all day would not be jealous and drag their feet. Although the probability was very small, after all...

He dismantled the crude altar, carried the statue himself, and packed up the other parts and took them away. After calculating the conditions for the 30,000 blood sacrifices, he had almost completed one-fifth of it.

Ahem...

This time, the blocking battle commanded by Al himself (pay attention to the blackboard) dealt a heavy blow to the morale of the greenskins, thwarting their plot to sweep through the Pina Forest, destroy the tribe, and then go north through Pina to attack the northern hinterland of the tribe's ally, the Estalia! It greatly delayed the greenskins' offensive momentum and bought favorable time for the subsequent defensive counterattack...

After successfully blocking the enemy, there is no need to mention tactical changes.

Al's retreat was not fast. The greenskins who had separated to steal his retreat seemed to know that the battle was over and did not choose to continue rushing forward. Al had originally planned to take a bite of it if the opportunity was right and tear down a thousand or so people.

They successfully joined up with the reserve army and retreated northward to the core area that had been selected as the only way for the greenskins to move north, and where they would be stationed and repaired to delay the subsequent defense.

On a reclaimed plain in the forest, a fortress has been built. It looks simple, but its defensive effect is just acceptable. From time to time, Estalia troops retreat here to garrison.

The fortress is basically made entirely of wooden structures and materials. The outer shells are basically made of special wood that is hard and comparable to iron and stone. Ai'er is not worried that the greenskins will burn down the wooden city. The shamans pray and hold ceremonies day and night to apply a large-scale "enchantment" to this fortress that is still under construction.

Generally speaking, this kind of spell requires one or more powerful spellcasters. As for their strength, we can compare them with the mage heroes in the last End of the World. Let’s pick one at random: Bayersazar Gelt, the chief mentor of the Imperial Academy of Magic at Altdorf, a medieval lover of the American Emperor and Qin Shihuang, and a wall-building enthusiast.

And a sufficient number of low- and middle-level wizards and priests who rely on spells and the power of faith to maintain it, as well as an astronomical amount of materials that probably only a complete kingdom can produce.

However, the effect that El requires is not long-lasting. It is enough as long as it is effective for a short period of time. Besides, in the Pina Forest, the wind of magic... does not cost money for the time being.

As a result, most of his shaman group were exhausted, and all their energy was used to reinforce the fortress. Fortunately, Al took into account that the greenskins might not follow his ideas, and he asked the shamans to make the spells triggered from the beginning, and then launch them after the enemy started attacking, and then continue like this for a while.

In order to ensure that the greenskins would definitely pay attention to this place, Aiel arranged for his subordinates to create various momentum, including urgently reclaiming fields on flat ground and then abandoning them to make it look like scorched earth, and placing some strange shrines and stone statues that were comparable to the Skaven clan patterns and various ancient patterns of the Lizardmen.

All of this is to make the greenskins treat this tough little town as a holy place, a key point, or a dragon's nest for the tribesmen, and then be determined to take it down.

Anyway, El had a history of giving the remains of hunted giant beasts, claiming that they were "sacred objects passed down in the tribe for thousands of years," to the Estalia people as a witness to the covenant of the tribal kingdom.

So what if you cheat on the greenskins.

......

The morale of the mortal army is high.

Obviously, after a series of small victories, defeatist sentiments such as "greenphobia" and "the green-skinned Waaaagh is invincible" have been severely weakened.

Ai'er led his troops to attract the main force of the greenskins, leaving a bunch of small fish and shrimps for the human troops led by the angry-horned beasts to attack and ambush. Most of the battles were won, with only a few being lost due to various reasons, but most of them were able to retreat safely.

Only a few small regiments were defeated and severely damaged, but no one was completely wiped out.

Having tasted the long-lost taste of victory for the humans on this land, many people shed tears of excitement, sang and danced in the camp, and held up battle flags to pray and bless.

The griffins flew across the sky, and the celebrating humans on the ground cast respectful glances at them. These majestic beasts have now become a totem of the Blood Mother faith among mortals: they are aggressive, glorious, and noble.

And loyalty.

Originally, the Southern Kingdom did not worship animal totems, but now the Estalia people who have converted to the Four Gods have also begun to worship these powerful monsters, which, due to their proximity to El, have more or less become divine incarnations.

When the Everchosen appeared in the camp, the wave of fanatical cheers reached a peak. The Beastmen were relatively calm, because in such a situation, "small" victories were the norm. They did not quite understand why the Estalia were beaten up all the way, and the refugees had to leave their homes with their families, and after a series of negative experiences such as fleeing to a foreign land, living under the roof of others, facing the shadow of famine, tyranny, and conscription by the kingdom... they mustered up the courage to go to the battlefield, and then expressed their joy and excitement for the consecutive victories over the terrible enemy that had caused the powerful kingdom to decline to this point.

Al saw this as a good opportunity, but he had not prepared and was not in the mood to talk, so he did not plan to give any speech.

Therefore, he signaled the officers of the Blood Oath Brotherhood to take this opportunity to carry out missionary activities among the Mortal Auxiliary Army, and bring the victorious soldiers to pray and chant under the shrine flags of the Four Mothers, especially the Blood Mother.

Thinking about pulling sheep for the four goddesses and collecting their faith all the time, Al felt that he had exhausted all his energy...

After all, he had just tried to please his stepmother in front of four goddesses.

Al knows that he is helpless and a little guilty. Just like the horse girl and the goat mother don't care if he adds people to the harem, but he still feels inexplicably guilty after sleeping with his wife. He looks for the two harem masters every few days. One is called the foster mother but is actually more like a godfather (bushi), a person who has no mother status but behaves like a mother in his interactions with the horse girl and the goat mother.

After inspecting the progress of the garrison work on the front line, and finding no major problems, Al went back to the tribal headquarters.

Kael'thas Simon and Misha will be in charge here. With the restraint of her elder sister and brother, there is no need to worry about the wolf girl Herael running wild again.

The fourth daughter, Hera, is a big wolf girl with a bunch of attributes such as animal ears, canine teeth, tsundere, and a clingy big dog.