Two Hundred and Eighty Eighth Chapter Rohan War (7)

All of Edoras was mobilized next morning, for King Theoden, who had broken free from the clutches of the wicked white wizard Saruman, had issued a decree in their capital of Rohan Order: From now on, the entire city of Edoras will be evacuated. Everyone must bring the necessary light property, some food and other daily necessities before noon, and take refuge in the easy-to-defend Horn Fort of Helm's Deep!

This order was executed quickly, and at noon, the residents of the entire capital of Edoras, under the protection of Rohan's infantry, began to retreat to Helm's Deep in an orderly manner.

And the reason why it can be so fast is actually because there are only less than 6,000 residents in this Edoras.

One is because the Rohan Hussars, a traditional nomadic nation, do not have many people who are willing or like to live in the city, but they need to chase pastures to graze cattle, sheep or horses; the other is that Because in this period of Middle-earth with low productivity, a city with more than 5,000 people is already considered a big city!

In this era of low productivity, if too many people gather together, the problem of eating will be unbearable for the people of Rohan.

"Theoden, you Rohan Hussars, do you really want to join that little witch's United Kingdom of Alicia?!"

"Please trust us. Gandalf will definitely bring back Eomer's cavalry in time. There is absolutely no need for you to seek refuge in a country of unknown origin!"

"Moreover, their kingship is not legal at all! What they occupy is the territory of the original Arno Kingdom, which is the territory of our Dundan people!"

Seeing the thousands of Edoras residents who were evacuating in a long snake formation under the protection of less than 1,500 soldiers, Aragorn rode his horse to the side of Theoden and spoke persuasively.

Last night, in the hall of the palace, because of the Alicia United Kingdom, he, Aragorn and Gandalf, almost fell out with that little girl! The relationship between the two parties has almost dropped to freezing point!

Because Gandalf doesn't trust the newly-emerged United Kingdom of Alicia, and even less trusts Queen Ofina who is ambitious to annex the Hussars of Rohan!

From Gandalf's point of view, that Ofina of unknown origin is even the same as Saruman or the Demon Lord Sauron. They are all delusional people who want to join Middle-earth and realize their ulterior motives. Conspirator!

Gandalf does not allow the emergence of a unified political power country or union in Middle-earth! This is not only his meaning, but also the will of the Valar gods!

The former Numenor Empire and the greedy Numenorians who wanted to attack Aman to seek more benefits are a lesson from the past! so,

The Vermillion Gods do not allow the same country to appear in Middle-earth, even if it is a sign!

This is also most of the reasons why Gandalf has been dealing with countries and leading various races and countries to fight against Mordor who wants to dominate the Middle-earth world! Fighting against evil is just one of them, and the most important thing is not to let the people of Middle-earth have too many ideas or unrealistic ideas!

So, because of this incident, they had a big fight in the hall of the palace last night, and almost staged a martial arts show!

Aragorn and Gandalf accused the little girl and Queen Ofina of wantonly occupying the territory of the people of Middle-earth and expanding the territory to provoke war, pointing out that their behavior is no different from that of the evil demon Sauron!

In fact, whether it is due to Aragorn's jealousy or Gandalf's unwillingness to see the world of Middle-earth that he has trained for more than two thousand years fall into the hands of an unstable little girl is open to question.

And the little girl Anne and the Queen Ofina said: Everything they did was to fight against Mordor and bring eternal peace to Middle-earth!

Therefore, in the end, the talks between the two sides collapsed as a matter of course. It is impossible for the United Kingdom of Alicia to stop the pace of expansion, and it is impossible to return those acquired territories! Even, they want to lure the whole of Rohan to join?

And in Gandalf's original plan, the Hussars of Rohan would definitely be bound together with Gondor, not the United Kingdom of Alicia who didn't know the truth!

So, early in the morning, Gandalf set off on his horse, Joying, in a panic.

He intends to find enough reinforcements to rescue Rohan, who is in trouble, to rescue the confused king who led the people to the dead end of Helm's Deep, and prevent them from joining the so-called United Kingdom of Alicia.

He didn't want to see that unsightly red-backed gold-edged vulture flag on the land of Rohan Hussars!

This is mainly because, last night, Theoden, King of Rohan, had expressed his attitude: in the end, who can save their country from Saruman and the barbarians of Dunland, who can help him defeat Saruman, whose side are they in Rohan!

Similarly, in the early morning of the next day, the little girl disappeared, and no one, including Gandalf, knew where she had gone, or what conspiracy she was up to?

"Aragorn...you should understand that kingship has no eternity!"

"The Kingdom of Arno has been destroyed for countless years. Whether that Alicia is legal or not depends on the power!"

"Now, everything is over! You should learn to let go, just like you gave up your original identity and responsibilities!"

After experiencing the pain of losing a son and watching the once powerful Rohan Hussars fall to such a state, Theoden began to take power lightly.

In his mind, at this moment, if there is no more foreign aid, the current Rohan will definitely not be able to fight against the coalition forces of Isinger and Dunland! According to intelligence, they have at least tens of thousands of troops this time! Moreover, it is said that Isengard is still using evil magic to mass-produce orcs?

If this is the case, maybe it is really a good choice to choose to line up with a strong man?

As for this Aragorn, he didn't even dare to try to obtain or inherit a Gondor kingdom in the south of Nuoda, so what's the point of thinking about and envious of the original territory of Arno now? In Theoden's view, since Aragorn's exile in Rivendell, his country has nothing to do with him.

People's hearts are selfish, no one will support a king who has no soldiers and no power, no matter how legal he is! As for Gondor... If Theoden himself is the Prime Minister of Gondor, as long as there are no major accidents, he is not willing to welcome back a king who is in the way!

"..."

Looking at Theoden who had already made up his mind, Aragorn could only slow down the speed of his mount silently, allowing the other party to speed up and leave. Maybe, he really wants to follow what Gandalf said, it's time to get back his inheritance and his kingdom of Gondor?

Otherwise, he, a wandering ranger, is so soft-spoken that he is too passive in everything he does!

Now, he can only pin his hopes on Gandalf. It will take about three or four days for this group of people to escort these civilians to Helm's Deep for refuge. Enough rescuers, and show up at the first light after the fifth day...

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The two hobbits, who have nowhere to go for the time being, have been fooling around with the shepherd Treebeard in Fangorn Forest for the sake of safety. Every day, they eat and sleep when they are full. In addition to being a little lonely and not having more entertainment, life is also happy and carefree!

From time to time, they still followed Treebeard to wander around, and saw many other tree shepherds of the other party, and even experienced the outrageously inefficient tree man meeting of the other party?

"Treesbeard? Where are we going?!"

It's very late today, and the hobbits Pippin and Merry, who had been sleeping on the head of the shepherd Treebeard, began to ask doubtfully when they woke up.

Because, they found that something seemed wrong tonight?

Within their line of sight, at least dozens of tree shepherds were seen, but there seemed to be many more in the distance? Together with the treebeards under them, they are moving silently towards the southwest.

The two hobbits knew very well that in the southwest of Fangorn Forest, isn't that the direction of Essinger? And now, with so many tree shepherds running to Isinger, are they going to fight with the white-robed wizard Saruman?

"We... are going... to answer... the call of the evil little witch..."

After turning his head slightly to glance at the two hobbits who had been with him for several days, Treebeard sighed heavily.

The tree shepherds really don't want to participate in the war in the middle-earth world. During the War of the Ancients, Morgoth and his minions caused too heavy losses to the tree shepherds...so Well, they originally wanted to continue watching as they did in the second era, they didn't want to join any party!

But how could they have imagined that that evil little witch would use what they cared most about to coerce them into participating in the war? Those tree wives... For the tree wives of the tree shepherds, they have no other better way than being forced to agree to the little witch's threats.

"Are you going to attack Essinger? This is really great! Saruman must be finished!"

Standing up and making a rough estimate, Pippin and Merry began to cheer excitedly after seeing at least hundreds of tree shepherds walking silently towards Isinger.

Before they were assigned by Gandalf to stay here in Fangorn Forest, apart from being safe here, wasn't it just to fool these tree shepherds to fight with Saruman of Isinger? And now, when they haven't done anything, this task is about to be completed? !

"Saruman? No... Our tree people are not Saruman's opponents..."

Seeing the two hobbits dancing excitedly on his body, Treebeard finally gave them a small blow after thinking about it.

"Based on the words of our hundreds of treants...we can't beat Saruman..."

"The evil white-robed wizard...he hides in the tower...will release lightning...and terrible flames..."

"If...we get within the range of his tower...he can...burn all of us treants..."

If the opponent is only dealing with the orcs or half-orcs under the white robe Saruman, Treebeard is sure to smash the opponent's base to pieces with a small loss!

But if he was facing that evil white-robed wizard, he wouldn't have any good options...

These tree shepherds are too big, and their movements are too slow. They are just living targets for wizards who can cast evil spells.

"Can't beat, can't beat?"

"Wait! Since we can't beat the white-robed wizard, why are we going to Isengard now?!"

Pippin and Merry were frightened when they saw the tree man say such despondent words.

If they can beat Saruman, then they definitely want to join in the fun! But if you know that you can't beat them and still follow, you are stupid. They are two hobbits who are happy to enjoy themselves, but they don't want to just die like this!

"That's because... that little witch... she's back..."

Treebeard said a little dejectedly, he didn't like that little witch, but he had to obey her orders.

But in fact, if the tree whiskers help the little witch, it really doesn't have other benefits?

In addition to being able to know the exact location of the tree wives, they can also expand their Fangorn Forest to the west, all the way to the west of Dorbalaan. These are the conditions that have been negotiated before, yes The little witch gave them the promised new territory of tree people.

"Your Excellency Witch Anne, she's really back? That's really great!"

Unlike Gandalf or others who were afraid of the little witch, the hobbits Pippin and Merry felt that the little human witch named Anne was very appetizing to them no matter what! Can it even be said to be congenial?

After all, when they were in Rivendell, they stole chickens, petted dogs, sneaked into the treasure house of elves, and ate King Elrond's beast together. After doing these things together, they established A deep comrade-in-arms friendship has been formed!

"If this is the case, then we can't wait to attack Essinger now!"

"That's right! Maybe, we should prepare some ammunition first? For example... a big bag of big rocks that can be used to smash orcs?"

After knowing the whole story, Pippin and Merry began to discuss excitedly.

If they were hiding on the tall and safe treants and throwing stones at those orcs or half-orcs, they felt that the fighting power of the two of them was still very strong!

"There's no rush... Let's go to the south to wait for orders... Wait for the signal from the little witch... Tonight's night is still very long..."

After taking a slow step for a distance of ten yards, Treebeard said again in a low voice.

Compared with victory, it hopes that this battle tonight will not reduce the number of members of its tree shepherds too much! Now, there are only these hundreds of clansmen left...

And those moving trees in Fangorn Forest, those tree beards that can be seen everywhere, they can never become tree shepherds without tree wives, they can only be magical creatures managed by their tree shepherds. tree friends only...

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"Your Excellency, Legion Commander! There has been movement in Saruman's army! Now, they are organizing an army and plan to break through our blockade!"

"He must have discovered that Her Majesty Queen Ofina led the main force to leave here, what should we do now?!"

When King Theoden of Rohan led the residents of Edoras to take refuge in the Horn Fort, Queen Ofina also led her main force to leave the barracks secretly following the night a few days ago, and began to move towards the people in Rohan. Head southeast towards Helm's Deep.

But now, outside of Essinger, there are only some artillery formations that are not convenient for fast marching, musketeers with less than 300 people, and miscellaneous troops with more than 1,000 people.

Therefore, when it was detected that strong orcs were organized again within the high walls of Essinger, intending to forcibly attack their now weak blockade, an officer quickly rode his horse and ran to the side where Ai Li was standing. Reported from the side of the West Asian flag and the Second Legion Commander Reinas next to a bonfire.

"Hmph! Saruman has already discovered it! The reason why he is attacking now is because he thinks that the number of troops may not be enough, so he just waited for a few days!"

"The musketeers are ready to line up! Tell the artillery to load the shells. If Saruman thinks that he wants to break through our blockade with less than 5,000 troops, then he is wrong!"

Looking at the orc troops who opened the high wall gates and came out in neat phalanxes shouting slogans, Reinas sneered disdainfully.

It seems that during the time when they besieged Isinger, the other party finally learned some good methods, and also knew how to choose to launch an attack in the middle of the night when the sight was not good, and wanted to use the night battle to kill their firearms troops. The advantages are suppressed?

If it is based on their current army of more than a thousand people and artillery, they may not be able to defend this place under the opponent's desperate charge! After all, when the number of muskets is insufficient, it may indeed be a bit difficult to use artillery with a slow loading speed to deal with infantry who can move and charge.

But now they are not just these people, they have even more powerful killers!

"Send the signal flare, let the tree people prepare to attack!"

Seeing the dozens of phalanxes of hundreds of people in the distance, the orc army of at least thousands of people is pressing towards her along the avenue they deliberately set aside, the corner of Reinas's mouth is slightly unnoticeable. He bent over, and then ordered decisively.

Now those tree beards controlled by the shepherds in Fangorn Forest, those big trees that can move and strangle people, have already gradually rushed over when they blocked the gate of Isinger in the United Kingdom of Alicia , and occupied all the other places except this road at the gate of Essinger!

"But, Your Excellency, Legion Commander! If the tree people are to attack now, they will suffer heavy losses under the attack of the mage tower..."

Looking at the towering black mage tower in the distance, the herald was a little confused.

When their queen Ofina was still leading the army to block here, it was because of the existence of the mage tower on the other side that she didn't want to launch a general attack. Otherwise, under the encirclement of thousands of main troops and powerful treants, this Where will Essinger stay until now?

"Oh! Don't worry, Saruman has no time to cast spells now, go and execute the order!"

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"Hmph! My army will crush you!"

Within Isengard, on a protruding balcony-like platform of the Orthank Tower, Saruman sneered and looked at the sporadic fires in the distance.

It has been a few days since his Isinger was blocked by the little bastards who claimed to be the kingdom of Alicia, and now, when they produced thousands of orc legions, Saruman finally decided to Taking advantage of the opponent's main force not here, break the opponent's blockade in one fell swoop!

Saruman nodded in satisfaction after seeing his thousands of troops began to shout loud slogans and slowly marched towards the position of the garrison barracks of the United Kingdom of Alicia far from the gate of Essinger.

Now, his army of tens of thousands of orcs has entered the territory of Rohan, and now, it is estimated that he is about to launch a raid on the Horn Fort of Helm's Deep or other important targets?

And a few days ago, when the queen of Alicia led troops to block his Isinger gate, he forcibly resisted the urge to let the tens of thousands of troops return, and just confronted each other like this, no one could do anything who!

Until today, after waiting for the opponent's main force to help Rohan, he ordered the orc army that he had finally produced to start attacking, preparing to drive away those blocking the door, and let the furnace under his Isengard To continue to get more wood and other resources to continue to produce the army.

You know, they have actually stopped production for several days. If they are blocked by the enemy like this, it is estimated that they will not even be able to uncover the pot...

"what is that?!"

Just as he was about to turn around and walk back to the main control room of the tower from the balcony of the Mage Tower, a huge colorful firework suddenly exploded in the dark sky in the distance. The forest actually started to get restless?

Then, big trees that could move began to rush towards Essinger. At the same time, those tree shepherds who moved faster began to rush out of the forest, directly towards the things he had finally accumulated. Thousands of strong orcs crashed into the formation, causing their formation to become loose and chaotic...

clap... clap...

Boom~! Boom~! Boom~!

While the tree people rushed into the second half of the orc army, in the distance, the gunpowder weapons of the musketeers of the United Kingdom of Alicia and more artillery units began to roar, and countless shells and bullets directly shot The vanguard of the advancing Orc Legion was beaten for a while, and there was a bloody storm in an instant!

"Tree people! How dare you?!"

Feeling that at this moment, those tree shepherds in Fangorn Forest dared to come out to make trouble for him, Saruman was immediately annoyed! He decided: he will use a wide range of fire spells to kill all the treants who dare to enter the attack range of the Isingor Orthank tower, leaving no one behind!

"What?!"

"Little girl! How dare you appear in my mage tower?!"

Saruman thought of what he was about to do, so he raised his black staff bitterly. Just as he turned his head and was about to go back to the tower, he suddenly discovered that in the middle of his main control room, there was a little girl sneaking up Picked up his crystal ball of true knowledge? Then, all of a sudden, I don't know where she stuffed it and disappeared? !

"Shameful thief! Give me back my crystal!"

Seeing that his precious crystal ball was inexplicably disappeared by the other party, Saruman yelled suddenly under his eyes, and then shook his hand fiercely, and the black staff appeared at the tip of the staff. A thick bolt of lightning slashed straight towards the opponent's face.

crackle!

The electric snake flashed past, and after only making a muffled sound, it disappeared on a transparent shield around the little girl.

"Crystal ball?"

"I didn't see any crystal ball! I don't know what you just said! Look, how can I hide such a big crystal ball?"

Annie herself is a very honest little girl, and now she has not seen any crystal ball of true knowledge!

Like the kind of treasure that can easily check all parts of the Middle-earth continent without magic power, once it is in her pocket, how can she return it? nonexistent!

She might want to take it back and reward her family's Ou Feina, so that the other party can more easily conquer this Middle-earth world for her?

"Hmph! Stupid little witch! I'll make you regret coming to this Orthank tower of mine!"

Seeing that ordinary spells didn't seem to work on the little girl, he gathered more mana on the spot, and opened all the restrictions in the tower at the same time, intending to suppress the girl as much as possible while strengthening his own strength. Little Witch's Mana!

"You will soon find out that within this mage tower of mine, your power will be severely suppressed! Then...you will regret being my enemy!"

If this little girl was in other places, he thought he might not be able to beat her, but in this Orthank tower, he had an absolute home court advantage!

"Huh? Are you talking about the kind of vague suppression? They are not of much use to me!"

"Forget it, then why don't I make a move? Because, I am not alone today! Come out, Tibbers, kill him!"

"No! Catch him for me!"

Tilting her head, after glancing at the white-robed old man who was channeling a spell, Annie didn't even attack him, but directly threw the bear in her hand.

Because, she plans to catch the live one today, catch this old man with white beard in white clothes!

Roar! !

After Tibbers the teddy bear left Annie's hand, he suddenly became huge.

Then, while Saruman was in a daze, a giant toy bear with dark red flames all over his body suddenly appeared in the main control hall of the Orthank Tower, scaring Saruman on the opposite side. As soon as he trembled last time, he immediately blasted the unfinished lightning spell at the flame giant bear!

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(Little Master Annie, this place is really too small, the little one can't exert its full strength at all... What should I do if I accidentally kill it?

——Tibbers waved his paw, casually patted a black mark on his chest that was blasted by the other party's lightning, and muttered to Annie in private, a little uncomfortably.

Its current height is almost reaching the top of this hall. When fighting here, it has no room to move or move. It can't run even if it wants to run. Maybe, if you are not careful, you will burn the other party to death. up? )

"Anyway, he can't beat you, hurry up and catch him!"

"If you accidentally beat him to death, I'll lock you up and make the second idiot into a toy!"

Annie didn't care about the stinky bear's complaints, and quickly pointed to the astonished white robed Saruman and gave Tibbers an order.

Originally, she also wanted Tibbers to kill him with one paw!

However, when she knew that this white-bearded old man had an army of at least tens of thousands, and seemed to know how to squeeze that kind of orcs in batches, Anne felt that it might be better if they were captured alive?

"..."

When Annie gave the order to Tibbers, Saruman, who saw the situation was not good, was already secretly retreating.

He's not stupid, if the opponent is outside the mage tower, he would dare to take advantage of the home court to attack this little girl and her magic pet! However, now that the opponent has sneaked into his main control room and released such a powerful monster, he doesn't intend to fight the opponent here!

After all, although there was a way to suppress that little witch, he had no good way to do that flame monster, which was obviously a melee type!

In Essinger now, there are treants taking the opportunity to make trouble outside, and this little girl and her pet are restraining him inside. Saruman feels that it seems that he can't stay here any longer? So, right now, he can only decide with grief and indignation: first find a way to retreat here, and after saving his own life, think of other ways?

"what?!"

When Saruman retreated stealthily and moved towards the platform he was on just now, a burst of heat wave suddenly hit from behind, scaring him to rush towards a corner on the left, narrowly avoiding it. That deadly flame!

Then, when he turned his head to look over for the first time, he realized that at some point, outside his mage tower, there was a Balrog that was equally huge and also covered in flames lying on it. On the outer wall of Orthanc Tower?

Moreover, at this moment, it is using its huge head to block the exit of the platform, as if it wants to see where this white-robed wizard is hiding?

"This is, the Balrog...?!"

Saruman couldn't think of it at all, how could there be a Balrog first here? How did it get here?

Moreover, this Balrog seems to be an accomplice of this little witch? How can this be! Saruman knew it, since Gandalf is still alive, shouldn't it have been killed by the old man in gray robe? !

"That's not a Balrog, it's my second black! Of course, you can also call it the second fool!"

Balrog or something, it's too ugly!

Little Annie felt that it would be more friendly to call her the two names Er Fool or Er Hei. It's a pity that her big smelly cart puller was beaten to death before, otherwise, she can be released now to get to know its younger brother Erhei?

"Look! You can't escape now, can you? Do you want to surrender quickly? Or, do you want to continue fighting?"

While speaking, Annie sat straight on the stone platform where the crystal of true knowledge had just been placed, and looked at Saruman who was cornered by her little bear Tibbers and the Balrog lying outside. , and asked tentatively with a grin.

At this time, more intense gunfire and the angry roar of the tree people sounded outside. Those tree people, as well as those big tree beards that can move, plus the troops of the United Kingdom of Alicia, seem to have already attacked AI. Within Singh's walls?