Chapter 760: Others Come to Fight, You Come to Snow Shame
Chapter 758 757.Others are here to fight, you guys are here to snowball your shame, bullish!
At the same time as the battle of Desolate Mountain resumed, the Crimson Fortress located in the rear was also exceptionally busy.
After returning from the ruins of Black Flame Pass, General Baldwin stationed here began to repair the fortress, the main area lies in the underground of the castle, and some Earth Priests have been invited here to refurbish the underground structure of Crimson Fortress while attaching the curing of Earth Spiritual Energy.
Obviously, General Winterwolf didn’t want the tragedy of the Black Flame Pass to happen in his own defense area as well, and the threat of those ratmen was a bit too big forcing General Baldwin to enter the state of war in advance as well.
However, the Crimsonwood Fortress was huge in size, rather than a fortress, it was more like a small group of fortresses, it was a defense zone consisting of a large, three and four forts built on top of the mountain passes encircling the eastern part of the Filthy Swamp, although the depth wasn’t as exaggerated as that of the Blackflame Mountain Pass, there were also two whole large lines of defense.
In the past four hundred years, this place has been the real frontline to deal with the Black Plague, so it’s not easy to refurbish it, plus most of the Silver Dwarf Priests are still below the Barren Mountain area to deal with the pit affairs in the meantime to reinforce the Maginot Line, the support that General Baldwin can get is really limited.
And his hands of that batch of armed blood servant has also returned to Transylvania, plus sent more than 10,000 people to the barren mountain led to the Crimson Fort actually appeared a short period of manpower gap, but also really let a person helpless.
But the good news is not without!
The general had previously asked the lords of the Kavhoka region to cooperate with the war effort when the other side could always prevaricate, but after the matter of the fall of the Black Flame Pass had spread out, he then asked these lords to cooperate with the work, and the other side couldn’t wait to send the private soldiers who had been doing odd jobs in the manor over to help out.
That heat made Baldwin fully understand the pressure these guys were facing at this time.
They probably don’t think that the Transylvanians can stop the jackals in the filthy swamp, this is not good enough to repeat the tragedy of a hundred years ago, I heard that there are already cowards who have left their territories and run back to Nordtorf, apparently they also don’t think that the nobles who are wolf women have to pay for this newly occupied land with their lives.
Some even think that Kavhokar, which is next to Transylvania, is a hot potato.
General Baldwin didn’t even bother to comment on such silly arguments, he was too busy right now, and was working hard to reorganize his legions, just to be able to hold the new kingdom’s borders for his majesty in the worst case scenario.
It was good to see that Wolf Girl knew her place as well.
Especially in the Pa Ying Lord personally went to the North Wind Castle, in the Ice Palace and the young Queen “painfully” after, Baldwin’s requests are the fastest speed to get a response, the main body of the Winter Wolf Legion in the northern border to defend Western Sahara barbarians can not be lightly moved, and so stationed in the Borisgrad of the Great Wilderness Legion received to support the fortress of Crimsonwood! The order was given to the Great Wilderness Legion stationed in Borisgrad.
This legion stationed in this place also to “great wilderness” as the name, obviously is Nordoff that has been stale beyond the military system in the absolute elite force.
They always get the best supplies, receive the best training, even the slow progress of the military reform is also the first to complete the armament of them, even the winter wolves have to be ranked after this army.
Even the Winter Wolves had to be ranked after this army, enough to see the status of this army in the Yankee society.
If the winter wolf legion is the strongest northern border defense army, then the great wilderness legion is the most trusted heart of the successive kings, if the future wolf woman can get an emperor’s crown, then the great wilderness legion is very likely to become the real “royal army”.
It is also absolutely worthy of this heavy honor.
Its predecessor was the main army used by the Hero King Boris to conquer the Great Wilderness, and it can be said to be one of the national symbols of the Kingdom of Nordstorf. The past honors of this army are countless, and the most shining one is the bloody battle with the Jackals led by the King of Bone Biting under the city of Northwind Castle in the Fourth Black Plague a hundred years ago.
They defended the capital city for four months, and the battle loss of the whole legion reached a shocking 270%, the formation was lost twice and almost came to the edge of being withdrawn, but the last batch of recruits recruited from the North Wind Castle did not let down the legacy of their predecessors, and defended the city in a real mountain of corpses and blood, until the moment when the situation was reversed, well, one of the main reasons why the Jackals did not capture the North Wind Castle a hundred years ago was that the great “Winter General” from the great wilderness was not able to capture the city. One of the main reasons why the jackals didn’t take Northwind Castle a hundred years ago was because of the great “General Winter” from the wilderness.
That winter was exceptionally cold, and even the army of the King of Bone Biters couldn’t maintain its full strength in a climate of over 40 degrees below zero.
To put it simply, the Great Wilderness Army is a unit with a “military spirit”, and is the real lynchpin of “Mudfoot Giant” Nordoff, whose mobilization represents the final decision of the Wolf Woman and her will to fight, and eases some of the worries in General Baldwin’s heart for the time being. The “Mudfoot” Nordstrom is the real lynchpin of the war.
Wolf Woman’s gift to her most trusted general is not limited to this one, on the third day of the barren mountain blockade began at noon, a special item through a strange winged beast and its equally strange handler was sent to the Crimean Fortress.
The flying winged beast had a rather peculiar appearance.
It was like a combination of an eagle and a giant wolf carved out of some kind of stone, with a body as slender as a wolfhound and a wolf-like head, but with a pair of broad feathered wings and eagle-clawed forelimbs, and its body was a granite-like grayish-white color, but if you looked closely, it wasn’t hard to find out that this thing was a living creature, and that it was only the color of its feathers that was peculiar.
It was a wolf vulture!
A beast that only lives in the bitter cold of the Great Wilderness, possessing wolf-like pack habits as well as eagle-like speed and ferocious personality.
There is only one creature in the world that can tame a wolf vulture as a companion and war animal.
That was the short man standing beside this wolf vulture.
The same height as the Silver Dwarf and the Brass Dwarf, but with a more “slim” build, he had rough cheeks like ice and snow and grayish-white skin, and his eyes were blue, like jewels in the cold wind.
However, because of his skin color and physique, this dwarf who wears bear skin armor and carries a hunting spear always seems to be as serious as a stone without a smile.
But if you underestimate this guy because of that, you will definitely be poked a few holes with his war spear.
This is the Frost Dwarf.
Frost Dwarf, to be precise.
The last of the three clans of Dwarves, possessing more primitive and austere habits than the Silver Dwarves, as well as a more stubborn and conservative character than the Shield Dwarves, an offshoot of the Brass Dwarves.
They reside in the Frost Keep in the Great Wilderness near the northern border, and like the Thorn Vampires have their own territories, are an autonomous race within the Kingdom of Nordtorf, and have also fully assisted the King of Heroes during the conquest of the Great Wilderness thus have been close friends of the House of Romanov since that time.
The Frost Dwarves cut off all contact with the Northmen for a hundred years after the usurpation of Rurik, the powerful ruler, and the establishment of the Rurik dynasty.
It is said that the descendants of the Hero King were protected by the Thorn Vampires and the Frost Dwarves to avoid the liquidation of the Rurik Dynasty.
Therefore, although the Frost Dwarves are not nominally involved in the politics of the Kingdom of Nordtorf, everyone knows that the Frost Dwarves are the loyal allies of the royal family, and only every king has the ability to convince them to join in a particular war.
“Hail to you! Lord of the wolves running across the ice fields!”
Seeing General Baldwin stepping onto the flying platform with his cane, the frost dwarf messenger who had come to deliver something immediately greeted with a thunderous voice:
“I bring greetings from Lord Baderdale, as well as a gift forwarded to you by Her Majesty, the Wolf Woman, please come forward to receive it!”
It was a rather rude request, but General Baldwin didn’t care.
He hadn’t dealt with the Frost Dwarves much during most of his life stationed in the North, and knew that these rough fellows were stubborn like that, and formalism was that essential part of dealing with the Frost Dwarves.
When the general took a few steps forward, he saw the messenger take out something wrapped in white bearskin from behind his back, and after unraveling it, he revealed a stone staff, on which were carved the heads of a giant wolf, a bear with bursting teeth, and a golden eagle.
He handed it to the general and said aloud:
“Frost Castle has sent eight thousand men of the Iron Foot Army here to support you in your battle with the Jackals, Acting Lord Baldur will also be coming over, but he is not the commander, he is here because of a personal matter, you are the commander!
The Acting Lord and Her Majesty the Wolf Woman have appointed you as the honorary commander of the Iron Foot Army in the Black Plague, and we will fight to the end with the Winter Wolf Legion in this castle that reeks of staleness.”
“Eight thousand men of the Iron Foot Army?”
General Baldwin was taken aback, he immediately sensed the sincerity of the Frost Dwarf and asked as he took the knuckleduster:
“My friend who is as stubborn as a rock in the wind, your Iron Foot Army only totaled 30,000 men, why would you send out so many this time? I don’t think I have the face to be able to get the Frost Dwarves to empty out their families for me.”
“Of course you don’t have the face, little Baldwin, it’s almost as if your old man and your grandfather came to life and begged us together.”
That Frost Dwarf messenger laughed out loud, not caring about the general’s face at all.
It was quite normal.
In the conservative and stubborn frost dwarf society that emphasizes on formalism, those who can be chosen as messengers are all highly respected dwarves, and this is a dignified dwarf lord, listening to him, he even has friendship with Baldwin’s father and grandfather.
He looked around and lowered his voice . Uh, with a Frost Dwarf’s voice any lower would probably be heard by the surrounding guards.
Anyway, he said in a voice like thunder: “It’s hate! Little Baldwin.
Baldur, on behalf of the Lords, has found the cause of the unexpected death of his father, our last Supreme Lord, Tiral.
It was no accident!
It was Mordel Cranium Stealer, the bandit leader of the Cesar barbarians, who orchestrated it.
Cranium Stealer’s band had already been wiped out by our hunters, but the dog got away early, and he had our holy relic, the Winter Strike, with him! It took us a lot of effort and money to track the bastard down through the renegade Chinchilla astrologers in Port Joseph and find the bastard hiding somewhere in the Dark Mountains.
If Baldur is to succeed as Lord, he must retrieve the sacred artifact and kill the villain himself, and it is fitting that Her Majesty, the Wolf Girl, has invited us to fight the Jackals.
It was a matter of passing by anyway, so the elders were generous enough to send eight thousand-man squads at once.”
“The Cesar Barbarians ran across half a continent to the Dark Mountain Range? Why do I feel that there’s some reason in this matter that you didn’t tell me?”
General Baldwin narrowed his eyes, but the frost dwarf rolled his eyes and said:
“I’m not telling you for your own good, don’t ask too many questions, I’m leaving, no need to keep me for dinner, bring me a few bottles of wine to drink on the way, the Iron Foot army will be here in a month at most.
Keep this place well guarded!
Don’t get overrun by jackals and have us collect your corpses.”
“You foul-mouthed dwarf! Can’t you say anything nice?”
General Baldwin angrily stomped his foot, but he knew that the Frost Dwarf was a ghostly figure, with no mouth at all, so he could only shake his head, and wanted to call out to his aide-de-camp, Colonel Duke, but Colonel Duke was still organizing the defense there in Baffent Canyon, so he could only call out to another aide-de-camp, and got this gluttonous Dwarf a bag of wine into the sidecar of his ferocious mount.
However, before the general could wake up from the joy of receiving double support from both the Great Wilderness Legion and the Frost Dwarf Iron Foot Army, a battle report from the Deserted Mountains made his lowered heart rise up again.
“What? We lost almost two thousand men in last night’s battle! Is this a battle fought with feet?”
Baldwin looked at the battle report that was written by Colonel Duke’s own hand, his face grimaced, and he began to wonder if the Transylvanians had intentionally let the Jackals go to allow them to attack their own army.
But after reading the battle report, the general could only sigh helplessly.
If it wasn’t for Lord Murphy pestering a portion of the Jackals in the Valley of Shadows, I’m afraid that the battle that took place last night at the southern end of Baphomet Canyon would only have been more tragic.
That terrain was not defensible at all, and the temporary positions molded by the Silver Dwarves were not perfect, not to mention that Duke was still facing the most fanatical Blood Scar Clan among the Jackals, so to be able to fight like this was already very good.
“General, should we let Colonel Duke retreat into the swamp?”
Baldwin’s other adjutant said softly:
“I can understand the need for this blockade, but I’m afraid that continuing hard in that terrain . . it would result in rather horrific losses.”
“I know that too, but with Governor Murphy himself holding the Valley of the Shadow, and with the Tainted Swamp and Maginot defenses needing time to continue to improve, and with the fortification of Fortress Crimson only just beginning, the castle as it stands now can’t handle a subterranean raid by the damned rattlers.
If they withdraw, there won’t be enough time.”
The general clenched his fists and said:
“Duke must persevere, no matter how hard it is!
Send the Winter Wolf Monks and Thorn Nightwalkers in the castle to them with another 1,500 men, keep the wounded alive as long as possible, the field hospital the Transylvanians have made is not bad, I’ve seen it myself, send our wounded there as well.
By the way, that ‘war insurance’ that deserves to go to hell .
I’ll pay for it, and get it for all the soldiers.”
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“Colonel! The hunters report a disturbance in the jackals up ahead! They may be attacking again.”
Colonel Duke, who hadn’t slept a wink last night and had just squinted a bit in his position after a busy day, was called up by the messenger, who rubbed his eyes and stood up, carrying his battle sword in his hand and striding out of his tent.
On the high ground of this crimson ground, the colonel saw at a glance the several sections of trenches snaking ahead as well as the barbed wire and according to the horse that had been pulled up, the soldiers were sitting in the trenches holding their weapons and resting, but those jackal corpses remaining after last night’s battle were still left in pieces in front of the position.
The dwarves had done their best to shape the terrain into a hillside to make the barbarians’ attack more exhausting, and the experience from the Transylvanians at the Black Flame Pass had helped last night, at least the combination of those denial trenches and barbed wire had limited the number of dog-heads that could charge through at once.
The troops in charge of the blockade under the Colonel’s command had plenty of firepower and enough supplies, and aside from the damned terrain and the blood-scarred jackals who were too rabid for their own good, everything was fine.
“They definitely killed more people than us last night, are these jackals dying to meet their evil god?”
After observing the movements of the jackals from high above with his telescope, Colonel Duke cursed harshly:
“To hell with their evil gods, no one is going to fucking leap over here into that damn canyon! Get the brothers ready, it’s noon now, and greet them hard with accurate artillery fire. How are the dwarven tunnels coming along? Are they operational yet?
Didn’t they say those Transylvanians killed a lot of jackals with the pits in the last three days?”
“It’s barely usable, Colonel, but only the main body is complete.”
The Colonel’s adjutant replied:
“It’s just that the Dwarves say that Dogheads have appeared in the pits, so it must be that the Transylvanian’s large-scale operations have made the other side realize the existence of the pits and take countermeasures. We don’t have any spectral half-elves on hand who are familiar with the terrain to lead the way, Colonel, if we let our soldiers rush in rashly, I guess we will be blocked and killed by the dog-heads inside.”
“Ah, hell! I knew the Transylvanians had kept a hand in this, how cunning.”
Colonel Duke took out his snuff and inhaled hard to clear his head, he glanced the other way and said:
“Keeping the Transylvanian walker up front, that thing was a big help last night! Now I finally know why our Wolf Woman’s Majesty wants to learn from the Goldfinch to do military reforms, if our Winter Wolf Legion had such mechanical behemoths, we would have finished off all the Cesar barbarians in the background a hundred years ago.
This thing is awesome!
It’s got guns and armor, it’s not afraid of swords and knives, it breathes fire, and it can stomp those rabid dogs even if you stomp on them hmmm, I’m starting to like it.
Hey, I’ll have to try my hand at it sometime in the future.
Seriously, Moritz, I think I was born to fly that thing.”
“Uh, Colonel, back in military school, you were known for not being a good horseman Do you remember that fiasco that happened when we were chasing the barbarians in the Northern Encounter and you were drunk and riding a horse? I think you should stay as far away from that hunk of steel as possible.
Truly, it will bring you misfortune.”
“Alas, my poor Moritz, do you know why, when we graduated in the same year, I’m already a colonel and you’re stuck as a first lieutenant?”
“Eh? Why? I won’t lie, I’ve actually been curious about that.”
“Oh, learn to shut up when you need to shut up, asshole. Now grab your weapons, the jackals are coming, those dogs beat the vampires and the goldfinches, they think they can still beat us.
Stupid!
The sons of the great wilderness will declare their loyalty in deed, they shall not pass!”
(End of chapter)