Chapter 1258 Alashi (I mean the meat dumplings are salty and not delicious)
To be honest, Nanhai Town has been having a hard time during this period. This is not because Duanmuhuai and others arrived on this planet, but before that, Nanhai Town was already a little stretched.
From the map, we can see that to reach the territory of the alliance from here, you need to cross the Arachi Heights, then go to the wetlands through the Sador Bridge, and then you can reach Danmoro or Theramore through the Port of Minaishir.
But the problem is that not long ago, the Sador Bridge was blown up by the Black Iron Dwarves, and the Arachi Highland was blocked by the tribe''s troops. In this way, the Nanhai Town was trapped in the Hillsbrad Hills.
Nanhai Town actually thought about breaking through the blockade of the Arachi Heights again and repairing the Sador Bridge. But they were also attacked by the Forgotten, the farm that was originally responsible for supplying food was destroyed, the jasper cave that produced iron ore was also seized by the Forgotten, and even the former mayor of Nanhai Town was assassinated.
Originally, Mayor Mareb planned to ask for help from the dwarf stronghold, located at the junction of Hillsbrad Hills and Arachi Heights, but sent someone to take a look and said, "Okay, Dangalor was also slaughtered by the tribe!"
Now Nanhai Town is completely numb.
Although there is a wharf in Nanhai Town, there are only a few fishing boats here. What’s more, there are no tribes on the sea, but there are Nagas on the sea! Your fishing boat dares to go out to sea, and it will sink you in minutes!
The Nanhai Town is now surrounded by enemies. If the Inquisition had purified the Undercity and scared away Tarenmere''s undead, I''m afraid that Nanhai Town would have completely surrendered in the face of the Forgotten''s sausage-cutting tactics.
However, blessings are unparalleled and misfortunes never come alone. Before Nanhai Town can be happy for a few days, okay, another undead summoned a group of skeleton soldiers and came to the door.
Although they defeated the undead with the help of Duanmuhuai, Nanhai Town also paid a huge price. Their griffin administrator died in this battle, and the griffin managed also fled in scattered and disappeared.
Although this world is just an underdeveloped magic civilization, it already has many modern concepts. For example, griffins are actually equivalent to single-person aircraft, which can be rode back and forth between fixed routes. Previously, Nanhai Town relied on Griffin, Danmoro and Stormwind City to maintain contact, and could also obtain some material support.
Now that the last contact line has been cut off, Nanhai Town has completely fallen into an isolated state.
The arrival of Duanmuhuai and others made Mayor Mareb see a glimmer of hope. He wrote a letter asking Duanmuhuai to take him to the alliance station so that he could seek support from Stormwind City.
Of course, this is not an easy thing. As mentioned before, the Arashi Highlands are now in the hands of the tribe, and the Sador Bridge has also been blown up by the Black Iron Dwarves. It is not easy to successfully reach the alliance through these places. But others don’t say it, at least Duanmuhuai looks very good at first sight. In addition, they are the only team of adventurers passing by here in this period, and Mayor Mareb has no other choice.
Although Mayor Mareb was not able to give much reward, Duanmu Huai was still happy to take on this task. On the one hand, as the great judge of the court, protecting humans is his duty. On the other hand, Mareb is also considered an official endorsement. At least with this letter and Mareb''s introduction, Duanmuhuai is easier to communicate with when encountering people from the alliance, rather than directly killing the other party.
So after resting in Nanhai Town for a night, everyone immediately set off on their way and headed towards the Arachi Highlands.
Originally, Duanmuhuai planned to see how the food was here, but Nanhai Town had no supplies for so long, and only dried fish and salted fish were left in the hotel... There was no way, so I had to grit my teeth and endure it first.
Because there is no threat, the road to the Arashi Highlands is somewhat boring, but it is not boring for the girls, because they are discussing a story in a verbal way.
A story about Stantholm.
This story was still the same as when everyone was having breakfast in the hotel early this morning, when they heard a minstrel telling him that the unlucky minstrel was trapped in Nanhai Town and had nowhere to go. Seeing Duanmu Huai and others, they naturally came up to ask for rewards. Duanmu Huai also wanted to learn more about the situation in this world, so they gave him a little reward for Mayor Mareb.
The latter happily accepted the reward and then sang and told everyone the story of the fallen prince.
According to the bard, a long time ago, Undercity was not called Undercity. At that time, it was the capital of a human country called Lordaeron, and Lordaeron was the most powerful human force in the alliance at that time. At that time, Lordaeron''s prince Arthas was also a prince who was deeply trusted and loved by everyone.
And why did that land become what it is now? The most important thing is the fall of this prince. When it comes to the fall of Prince Arthas, we have to mention the key event - the Stantam Holocaust.
This matter itself is not complicated. An evil undead sect is spreading a certain plague that will kill others and turn them into undead creatures. When Prince Alsace led his army to follow the clues to Stantamom, the plague here had already broken out.
Prince Arthas and his mentor Uther had a big debate. Prince Arthas insisted that the people of Stantosom should be eliminated as soon as possible to prevent the spread of the plague. But Uther thought it was inhumane and opposed Arthas'' order, so Arthas removed Uther from his post and personally led his troops into Stantamme to kill every living life.
After that, Arthas went to Northrend under the temptation of the Demon King of Fear and eventually fell into depravity. When he returned from Northrend, he killed his father with his own hands and turned the entire Lordaeron into his current ghostly appearance.
What the girls are discussing is whether this choice of Alsace is correct.
Of course, for Duanmuhuai, Alsace did nothing wrong. In fact, if it were the Inquisition, for the sake of security, let alone Stansom, the entire East-West plague land would be completely massacred. Then a fire is burned to ashes to prevent the outbreak of the plague to the greatest extent.
Alsace only slaughtered Stantholm, and Duanmuhuai looked too stingy!
Akami Homo and Kit didn''t think there was any problem with this, while Mio Narase and Wanria were a little uneasy. Of course, they could understand Alsace''s approach, but when they thought of the prince leading his soldiers to massacre the people he should have protected, they felt a little sad for him.
Duanmuhuai has only one sentence for commenting on this.
"What a pity, if the Inquisition was there, we would have done better."
“………………”
Well, Duanmu Huai killed the argument with one sentence, and also made the girls shut their mouths obediently.
Indeed, if it were the Inquisition, the one who died would not be the problem of the city of Stantholm, because according to the bard, the other party was mixed with plague virus in the food, so from the perspective of the Inquisition, since there was no solution and the plague could not be found to spread and harmed humans, the best way was to purify the entire plague land.
So the bard said that the beginning of the fall of Alsace was the massacre of Stantam. In Duanmuhuai, it seemed pure nonsense. The plague spreads quickly and there was no way to solve the problem in a short period of time. If you don’t eliminate it, will you keep it for the New Year?
On the contrary, the one named Uther made Duanmu Huai feel very suspicious. He even doubted whether Uther would be a demon believer. After all, the other party tried his best to prevent Arthas from eliminating the spread of the plague. Could it be that the person named Uther is also a member or an insider of an evil sect?
Well, it''s very likely.
I don’t know how the person named Uther is now. If he is still alive, Duanmu Huai will definitely arrest him and question him.
After all, according to Duanmu Huai''s experience as a judge, people who usually do this kind of behavior are either stupid or bad, or they may be stupid and bad.
In short, no matter which one, it must be that the enemy of mankind has not escaped. At this moment, everyone had already passed through the Hillsbrad Hills and came to the Soladin Wall on the border with the Arachi Highlands.
According to Mayor Mareb, there were originally a dwarf who was in charge of guarding it. Unfortunately, the dwarf''s stronghold here Dangalock was slaughtered by the Forgotten. The scouts sent by Mareb did not find any useful clues inside, but only found a badge from the dwarf. So he handed the badge to Duanmuhuai, hoping that he would go and talk to the dwarves when he passed by Danmoro.
Well, taking two tasks at once, the mayor is quite easy to deal with.
After passing through the Soladin Wall, Duanmuhuai and others were blocked by accident. Fortunately, they had the token of Mayor Mareb, so the other party did not fight with Duanmuhuai immediately, but took Duanmuhuai to the alliance camp located in the refuge valley.
Here, Duanmuhuai met Oslet, the marshal of the Alasso coalition.
“So you want to cross the Arachi Heights?”
Looking at Duanmu Huai in front of him, Marshal Oslet''s expression was a little surprised and suspicious. To be honest, the big man in front of him gave him a very dangerous feeling. If it weren''t for the little girl sitting on him and the girls behind him looked harmless, Marshal Oslet would have ordered someone to take it down long ago.
"Of course I understand that the situation in Nanhai Town is very critical now, and the abnormalities in Tirisfalinland also need to be investigated, but the problem is that we can''t do anything now."
Marshal Oslet sighed helplessly.
“The tribe completely blocked this area, and unless we can take it back, everything is fantasy.”
"Then take it back, what''s the difficulty?"
Duanmu Huai seemed very straightforward, or to him, the matter was that simple.
“But we are underpopulated.”
Although Marshal Oslet has the title of "marshal", his army here does not exceed 300, which is a miserable force. In fact, this is also related to the bombing of the Sador Bridge. If the bridge is blown up, it is naturally impossible to transport supplies in large quantities. Although griffins can be responsible for bringing goods, are you planning to exhaust the griffins to death by bringing supplies to thousands of people at a time?
Griffons are also of temper.
So Marshal Oslet only left a part of the people and relied on the supplies in Nanhai Town to live.
As a result, Nanhai Town was also copied by the tribe. According to the principle that the lips were dead and the teeth were cold, Marshal Oslet should have sent troops to help, but...
"Look."
Standing in front of the closed gate of the military camp, Marshal Oslet pointed at the distant land with a serious expression. From the alliance camp, he could clearly see the battlefield situation in front of him. This battlefield was named the Arash Basin and was once an important stronghold on the alliance side, but at present, this stronghold has been completely occupied by the tribe. Patrol soldiers from the tribe can be seen everywhere.
"According to our investigation results, there are almost a thousand people on the other side, and we are not opponents at all. To be honest, I have also tried to take people back to the Arachi Basin, but I have failed many times."
"But in this way, aren''t these tribal members also trapped here?"
Looking at the scene in front of him, Mio Narise raised her own question in confusion.
“Do they have no supply problems?”
"certainly."
Marshal Oslet nodded with a serious expression.
"I chose to build a stronghold here because I was attracted by the environment here. There was a mine in the Arash Basin and a sawmill above it. At the same time, we also built a blacksmith shop for supply needs. So from this point of view, they are not afraid of not having supplies, as for food..."
Speaking of this, Marshal Oslet smiled bitterly.
"The undead doesn''t have to eat."
"Well…………"
Well, what''s right, it''s true, it''s all turned into immortal creatures, so why are you still eating?
So the Alasso coalition was also restrained here. Originally, they had fewer people. If they divided their troops, the other party could concentrate and break through thoroughly. At that time, not to mention that the Soladin Wall was about to fall, Nanhai Town would not be able to defend it. Therefore, even though we know that the rear is very critical now, Marshal Oslet has no better way than to hold his troops in a stable manner.
But this does not mean that Duanmu Huai will accompany him here with big eyes and stare at him. He is out for traveling, not a dead house.
“How many people are there in total?”
"The tribes each invested three hundred soldiers in the sawmill, blacksmith shop, mine and beast bars. Only the farm was located behind those blasphemers and the undead didn''t have to eat, so there was not much force to protect them."
"Okay, I get it."
Hearing this, Duanmu Huai nodded, then turned to look at the girls.
"Prepare, let''s kill these heretics'' miscellaneous pieces!"