The 125th Chapter the Battle of Stratholme (1)

In the 20 years since the Dark Portal of Azeroth, in this originally ordinary year, many extraordinary events happened, even enough to be recorded in the annals of history.

In the beginning, the Burning Legion once again planned a conspiracy against the planet Azeroth after planning for ten thousand years and learning the lessons of failure ten thousand years ago.

This time, they first found and used a pawn - Ner'zhul, the Lich King. More than ten years after the end of the Orc War, they used this former orc shaman to launch a new round of war against the world of Azeroth. offensive! The plague of death from the Scourge of the Undead spread across the land of the original Kingdom of Lordaeron. These were also the work of Ner'zhul, who became the Lich Queen. Of course, all of this was actually carried out under the command of the Burning Legion behind the scenes.

Later, the fall of Prince Arthas Menethil of the Kingdom of Lordaeron happened, and the entire Kingdom of Lordaeron collapsed... So, this event was conspired by the Burning Legion and was organized by the witches. The death storm directly implemented by the demon king finally swept across the entire northern continent of the eastern kingdom. Whether it was the human kingdom of Lordaeron or the high elves' kingdom of Quel'Thalas, they were all destroyed in this storm!

Even Dalaran, the magical capital of mankind, was not spared. This is already recorded, Dalaran was destroyed by war for the third time! It's just... this time, even their chief archmage Antonidas died on the spot together, and they even paid a high elf prince—Kel'thas!

It seems... the entire northern continent of the eastern kingdom is shrouded in the shadow of death. The threat of the undead natural disaster is like a haze that will never go away, pressing so hard on the heads of all the creatures in the northern continent ; and like a sword of Damocles, you never know when it will fall on your head...

Especially after Alsace and Kel'Thuzad successfully stole the Book of Medivh and summoned the demon lord of the Burning Legion——the polluter, Archimonde!

Since the official arrival of Archimonde and the moment when the Burning Legion announced that they had come to the world of Azeroth again, the entire Eastern Continent seems to have lost any hope.

A large number of human beings, as well as the remaining orcs still lingering in the deep mountains and old forests, began to organize and flee, desperate to stay away from this world destined to be ruled by death...

Except for a small number of human beings trying to cross the strait, going south to Dun Morogh, to the territory of the dwarves, or taking refuge in the Kingdom of Stormwind further south, most of them chose to cross the endless sea and go to Kaka on the other side of the ocean. Limdor Continent to take refuge. Among them are the humans led by Lady Jaina Proudmoore and the orc tribe led by the new generation orc Thrall.

The arrival of the lord of the Burning Legion, Archimonde the Defiler, had a huge impact on the situation in the entire eastern kingdom. It was like a huge shadow that shrouded everyone's hearts. Some powerful people who have already sensed the other party's strength chose to go dormant one after another, and no longer tried to come out to make trouble or toss.

For example, at that time, because of a bad girl, Ragnaros, the king of fire and death, and Nefarian, the black dragon prince, were almost separated! Now, these two life-and-death enemies with extremely tense relations are still occupying the upper and lower parts of Heishi Mountain respectively. Now, none of them dare to mention the matter of continuing the fight, for fear of making too much noise accidentally. , thus attracting the attention of the big devil.

As for forces like Ironforge or the Kingdom of Stormwind, which are separated by the strait and far away in the southern continent, due to lack of sufficient understanding of the specific situation in the northern continent, they are still only vigilant and concerned. They have unequal information, and they are still not very clear about what kind of terrible things happened on the land of Lordaeron.

After all, the distance between the two sides is too far away.

In addition, the information in this era is still relatively closed, communication can only be done by shouting, and now they can only receive some scattered news. For them, it seems that they are staying at the terrible plague that broke out in the Kingdom of Lordaeron?

In this way, in the twentieth year since the establishment of the Dark Portal, when the cold winter in the northern hemisphere of the Azeroth world is coming; When some strong men choose to hibernate or flee from this continent; when the paladin Dathrohan is escorting their Lordaeron kingdom's last Princess Kalia to the Holy Light's Hope Chapel; here in the Eastern Plaguelands , the Kingdom of Flame, which had just risen in the Flame Canyon, brazenly blew the first horn to counterattack the undead natural disaster and the demon army under the order of a little girl in the early morning!

Countless years later, whether it is dwarves or gnomes who like archeology, or those historians of the human kingdom and high elves, they all like to mark the events that happened on this day that had a great impact on the world of Azeroth. It was the first battle against the Burning Legion, and it was emphatically called the Wrath of the Flame Queen in historical materials!

It was this mysterious little girl whose origins could not be found by any historian, and this powerful existence who called herself the Flame Queen. She led her army of fire elements, and in those short two days, they were wiped out in an instant. All the land north of Blackwood Lake in the Eastern Plaguelands, whether it is the human town inhabited by the undead, the base of the Wisdom Tower, or the sentry towers and barracks left by the elves and humans, under the attack of the fire elemental army, Those undead and buildings were all burned to pieces of white ground. This is the first time that her flame kingdom has shown their ferocious fangs to the world of Azeroth...

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Stratholme, this majestic human city built of solid white granite, has been reduced to death since it was massacred by the original Prince Alsace.

Now, this place has become a paradise for the undead. Right now, in this once huge human city, there is an army of at least one hundred thousand undead! If it was normal, no living person or creature would approach here at will. For all living beings, this place is a place of death and an extremely terrifying evil existence!

However, today, this terrifying Stratholme is surrounded by more than 50,000 flame troops from the Flame Kingdom. Outside of Stratholme, the sky and the earth are all reddened by the flames of the flame elemental body. Looking around Go, it seems that the city has been surrounded by a sea of ​​flames... Well, it is not as if, this is actually the truth!

"Hey! I said that you are really useless! You still have to fight for a long time with just such a monster?"

Anne had just floated off the back of the pure-blooded fire hawk lord Seria, when she saw several fire demon centurions and fire demon hunters in front of Stratholme moat lake, in the open space opposite a meat grinding ground. Leading a group of lava dogs to besiege a huge sewing abomination.

Outside the siege formation, many small Balrogs were throwing small fireballs at the abomination vigorously. However, even the opponent's back was ignited with raging fire, and at the same time, the back was still creaking, and even the disgusting fat , have been roasted by high temperature, and it still doesn't seem to have much effect on this huge abomination.

Because, in its fat body, before the key points are not burned, these flames still have little effect on it. You know, it is just an undead patched up by a pile of dead meat That's all! Whether it is half cooked or half cooked by the fire, what difference does it make to this abomination?

The fire elementals below also looked at each other in dismay when they saw their queen arrive. After all, they can't be blamed for this, it's just because the mending abomination is too big, at least as tall as the lava giant Alturk, It's also extremely fat, and they really can't do anything about it.

I don't know if it was because the undead were stimulated by Alturk before that they made this abomination so big that neither the fire demon's war blade nor the lava dog's bite could do anything to it, and the fire Even if the demon hunter's bow and arrow had already penetrated into the opponent's skin and penetrated deeply into the tail feathers, it could not cause too much damage to it. On the contrary, several lava dogs that rushed too fast and were eager for success were trampled by it. A few hot lava slags...

"snort!"

Annie snorted coldly, like the one in front of her, only the abomination with a huge body and no corresponding protective power can't trouble her!

Only those evil undead can create such a disgusting thing with a superficial appearance! There is neither metal armor nor resistant skin, and a lot of stinky meat is piled up like this. Isn't it great to be big?

Therefore, Annie, who floated down from the Firehawk's back, threw out a Fragmentation Fire without even thinking about it, and the huge explosion fireball hit the disgusting head that hated it.

After a bang, the head of the hatred was blown to pieces. At the same time, after the control center inside was destroyed, the huge meat mountain shook back and forth a few times before it had to fall straight After falling down, the huge weight still shook the nearby ground slightly...

"Do you know where Shanknox is? Hurry up and find him! Let him assemble his troops immediately, we are ready to attack the city!"

Looking at the fire elementals who were in a mess around them and still fighting on their own, Annie shouted to a fire demon centurion who was still in a daze.

The fire elementals are really running too scattered. Annie has already seen it from the high altitude. Just now she looked down from the high altitude, and the ground is full of thick smoke and flames. The tens of thousands of flames are even scattered. It's everywhere, it's a mess!

Now, the front of the fire element has been stretched long and chaotic, almost losing its organizational structure. If it weren't for the fact that the opponent was too weak, and the characteristics of the fire elementals just happened to restrain the undead, and if it was replaced by a ruthless character like an orc who would not die in a fight, maybe they would have been given Push it back!

Look, these relatively fast fire demons and lava dogs have already reached here, but where are the slow-moving flame turtles and lava giants? Maybe, they are still far behind, and they haven't even seen their shadows? Otherwise, such a huge abomination, would they fight so hard just now? The lava giant came down with a punch. Is this Roshan abominable or the stone man?

"Ah? Ah...! Yes! I, I'll go right away!"

After seeing that Her Majesty the Queen was talking to him, the fire demon centurion was stunned for a while. When he saw the Queen staring at him dissatisfiedly, when he was about to explode, he suddenly reacted and quickly led The two lava dogs went all over the world looking for their chief manager Shane Knox.

Soon, after the queen's order was issued, the fire elementals quickly wiped out the undead natural disasters around the entire diseased forest, and quickly spent half a day under the scolding of the chief executive and the fire demon leaders Only gradually completed the basic formation arrangement. At this time, on the road behind, those lava giants who were racing against the elite lord of the giant flame tortoise Teropene and his descendants finally arrived at the southern gate of Stratholme slowly.

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Now, high above the sky, countless pure-blooded fire eagles soared and circled among the clouds, and from time to time there were a few crisp eagle howls. As the Fire Elemental's only aces of the air, they await orders from their queen to attack.

Once they receive the order, the thousand-headed powerful fire hawks will swoop down and attack Stratholme directly below. Turn this city into a sea of ​​flames in one step!

And in front of the great lake of Stratholme's moat, more than a hundred lava giants are using their unique earth magic. Giant stone pillars and ground thorns start to rise from the lake, and then break apart. They need Open several passages on the lake so that the fire elements can pass through smoothly. After all, the lake water can cause quite a lot of damage to the fire elements.

But now, in the diseased forest burned by the soaring fire, an army of flames is gathering all over the mountains and plains, and they are moving back and forth unimpeded in the fire field like a doomsday purgatory.

Whether it is a lava dog, a flame tortoise, or all kinds of Balrogs, these forest fires not only have no effect on them, but have also contributed to their power. From time to time, some fire demon centurions come and go Between the ranks, they kept reprimanding them, trying hard to maintain the basic order of the army.

The undead camps that were originally in the diseased forest have disappeared at this moment. After all, under the power of the flame army, in the sea of ​​flames soaring into the sky, whether it was the defensive psychic tower or the meat grinding ground built by the undead, it had been burned to a white ground long ago...

The situation in front of Stratholme made the necromancers in the city and the members of the Cult of the Damned who still maintained their identities as living people instantly scared out of their wits!

From their point of view, perhaps, the army of flames in front of them is the veritable Burning Legion? Take a look, they burn wherever they go... With the soaring flames outside, it is estimated that there will be nothing left after this forest fire, right? What if... what if they break through the city wall and rush into Stratholme... just thinking about this scene is terrifying!

The situation is so bad that those necromancers or sect members who still maintain their independent consciousness are already thinking about how to escape. Maybe, when the city is broken, they can try to escape to the north to break through ?

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"Listen to the undead in Stratholme! You are limited to one hour... Ah, no! You have to open the city and surrender within a quarter of an hour at most, otherwise, after we rush in, we will definitely burn you all!"

Annie is standing on the head of the tallest lava giant, Alturk, before they walked out of the formation of the flame army. Right now, she is pointing in the direction of Stratholme city with one hand on her hips and shouting coquettishly. .

Now, don't mention how proud little Annie is!

Back then, when she was in Quel'Thalas, she was bullied by the large number of undead, and she was chased and ran several times by them!

But now? Has the tide turned? aha! Now it's finally her turn to bully those undead with more people! She has been waiting for this day for a long time, and little Annie is very vengeful! Whether they surrender or not, she will burn them all!

"Hmph! Stupid and ignorant human beings, just continue to be proud! Lord Archimonde is coming here soon, your doomsday is coming!"

Varimathras on the head of Stratholme City, with gloomy eyes, looked at the flame army outside and the little girl standing on the head of the giant lava giant with disdain.

Now, after that idiot Balnazar died, Stratholme would naturally come under his control. But he never imagined that he had just come here for a few days and hadn't had time to rectify the military affairs. These fire elemental troops would kill the gate like this?

The reason why he is not scared to run away now is because he knows that Lord Archimonde, after getting the news, is already on his way here.

If it weren't for Lord Archimonde's energy level being too high, and the world still has the defense mechanism left by the Titans, if he used the portal at will, existences at the level of Lord Archimonde would easily be destroyed by Azeroth. The defense mechanism of the world is directly squeezed out, so I can only use flying to fly over slowly! Otherwise, it would have been directly teleported over a long time ago, how would we give these fire elements a chance to show off their power here?

"Huh? Archimonde? Could it be that great demon? Then... when will he be here?"

Annie is a little scared, if it is that big devil, I really can't beat it, if the other party arrives in time when I am attacking the city, it will not be very fun if I am under the enemy !

"Hmph! Aren't you afraid? Lord Archimonde will arrive here at night at the latest. Perhaps, if you surrender now, maybe there is still time?"

Varimathras actually knew the thoughts of the polluters.

Lord Archimonde really wants to get these powerful fire elemental troops under the command of the legion, and prepares to serve as the main force to attack Kalimdor together with the forces of the Burning Legion. After all, on the Kalimdor continent, there are not only a large number of humans and orcs who escaped, but also night elves with unknown strengths and unknown numbers!

"Is that so, do you really have to arrive at night? Aha! Then you are dead!"

"Blast Flame!"

Hearing this, Annie's eyes lit up. If she can only arrive at night, then she can burn all these annoying undead in the city first! There must be enough time!

Therefore, after she threw a huge pyrotechnic spell at the big bat of the dread demon king on the top of the city, she jumped directly from Altok's head, and the fire eagle lord Selia swooped down in time to jump to the ground. The little Annie in the air was attached to its own back.

"Flame Legion! Attack!"

Under Anne's order, the lava giant Alturk led hundreds of other lava giants under him to rush directly to the city wall of Stratholme on the lake. They needed to destroy those obstacles in advance for the fire element army behind. city ​​walls.

At the same time, above the sky, those huge Firehawk troops also rushed down at the same time, and countless breaths of flames exploded in the city, and those psychic towers and meat grinders that had not had time to attack fell into the flames. surrounded by...

"Bastard! Prepare for defensive operations!"

After hastily dodging Anne's pyrotechnic, Varimathras sternly ordered the undead to be wrong. The top of the city where he was originally standing has now been blown into ruins by Annie's explosive fire technique. If the city wall was not made of rocks, it would have been burned into a sea of ​​flames, right?

"Hellfire!"

Varimathras didn't intend to stand still. Stratholme has more than 100,000 undead troops. Although good and bad are mixed, there are not many elites. However, if he just delays the defense until Lord Archimonde arrives, he is still a little confident.

Therefore, after avoiding Annie's spell, he also guided their Dreadlord's best large-scale summoning spell. In an instant, countless green hellfires appeared from the sky, roaring and smashing into the formation of the charging lava giants. When it came down, while disrupting the opponent's charge formation, it quickly turned into dozens of green hellfires the size of those small lava giants.

"Wait! What is this voice?"

Just after releasing the Summoning Hellfire, Varimathras suddenly felt something was wrong when he was about to release another big earthquake, as if... something was falling from the sky?

Regardless of interrupting the backlash caused by the spell, he hurriedly looked up at the sky, only to see... a huge flaming meteorite was dragging a long tail flame, screaming and smashing down on his position...

run!

Varimathras just had time to release a flicker, the section of the city wall he was standing on was smashed to pieces by the huge meteorite, and then...

boom! After a bang.

After the impact of the meteorite destroyed a large section of the city wall and wiped out thousands of undead, a giant red hellfire bigger than Altok slowly stood up in that big pit...

"Hmph! Do you think you are the only one who can summon Hellfire? What's the use of having more green fires? Is it as big as my Hellfire? Is it as fierce as my Hellfire?"

In the distance, little Annie, standing on the back of the fire eagle Seria, slowly retracted the hands that had just guided the spell. At this moment, the red flame arcane light was still lingering around her body, which was a normal phenomenon after casting the spell. And the huge red hellfire that was raging on the top of Stratholme city, and trampled a certain green hellfire into pieces, was her masterpiece just now!

Otherwise, do you think Annie, a demigod, can only throw small fireballs and big fireballs? The deterrent power of a demigod can be fully demonstrated in the battle of the large army in front of him, under the heavy protection of the army.

Adhering to the principle that big is beautiful and fierce is good, the things Annie summons will definitely not be too petty.

Look, how fierce and domineering is that huge red hellfire she just summoned? Although there are still time and other restrictions, it won't exist for too long, and it may fall apart after a while... But this is enough to tear down that annoying city wall!

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Just this chapter

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After all, there are chapters of more than 6,000 words, and I am too lazy to divide them into two chapters.