Chapter 278: The Lord of the Rings Total War (3)

"Head... Me, what should we do now?!"
On the city wall, a soldier with a shield on his back, a silver-white steel plate breastplate and leggings on his back panted, panting, and asked a panting little boss next to him in fear.
These people are actually soldiers belonging to the elite Dendan warrior team in the town of Yard. They belong to a group of professional soldiers, loyal to the lord here, and their status is not very high.
However, now the situation here in Stade Town has become like this: their governor and lord Edgarian has been beaten to death by the women holding devil weapons in the distance! Then, Lord Lord's deputy was also killed! Even the lords of the knights who were usually above the top under the lord were all dead, and there was still no one left!
At this moment, in Stade Town, besides the political officials, the highest-ranking military commander seems to be the little centurion who is responsible for coordinating and leading the two teams of Dundan warriors?
"What else can I do? I can only defend it!"
"The iron rods in their hands that make loud noises, emit fire and smoke, must be some kind of devil's weapon! Therefore, we must not easily go out of the city to fight with them!"
It was the leader of the Dundan warrior who was the first to come back with his team, and after breathing heavily for a while, he finally calmed down.
"Immediately explain, let the brothers calm down! They don't have as many people as ours, and they should not force the city to attack. As long as we guard the wall and don't go out, they will definitely go by themselves in a few days!"
In any case, he will never go out of the city to find his death!
Then, after looking at the corpses of the knights outside the city, he suddenly found that right now, it seemed that he had a great opportunity to succeed in the position?
The situation is already very bad now, Lord Lord and his knight lords, all died in the battle outside the city just now! And at this time, all that is left in the city are their dude family members who don't use any farts? The people in Ystad Town might have gritted their teeth long ago, right?
And if he can successfully defend the city wall this time and rely on the two hundred elite Dengdan warriors under his hand to slowly take over and trap the other defending soldiers, maybe, when the enemy retreats, he might just Can you become a new Lord of Ystad Town?
The more he thought about it, the more he couldn't help the excitement that he almost wanted to laugh out loud! This is directly from a little centurion who is not a nobleman, directly into this large piece of land, including the great lord who ruled tens of thousands of people in the surrounding area...
"Hurry up! Immediately send a few trusted brothers to guard the city gate and get more stuff to block it! As long as the city gate is guarded, no matter how powerful their weapons are, they don't want to attack inside!"
boom! ! !
The words of the Dengdan warrior leader had just fallen. Suddenly, he felt the shock like waves of shaking on the city wall, and then, there was a roar of thunder and lightning coming from explosions, shocking him. When I hurriedly retreated, I planted directly into the city from the more than three meters high wall...
"How is this going……"
When the leader of the Dundan who was dreaming of the lord just now stood up from the ground staggeringly, all he could see was that the tough large rivet iron-wood gate in the town of Ystad was said to be able to top The strong gate that could survive the ramming of the trolls was directly penetrated by some terrifying thing?
Moreover, while the city gate was broken and collapsed by Juli Hole, now there are only small pieces of broken wooden pieces still hanging in the city gate hole? What method did those enemies use to smash a city gate in such an instant?
Think about the loud noise just now, could it be...they summoned thunder and lightning?
...
On this day, the offensive and defensive battle here in Ystad Town was quickly over!
When the gates of Ystad Town were blasted open by the enemy’s large devil iron rod weapon, the soldiers who had been terrified because the lord and the knight master were annihilated almost instantly ran away. !
Some of them, after discarding their armored weapons, ran back to their homes to install civilians; some of them, after taking away some of the original lord’s belongings, joined others from the gate on the other side of the town. Direction, and ran away without a trace!
And the rest, because they had their own family and property in the city, they were not willing to throw it away easily, so they chose to hang the white flag and surrender to the army equipment outside the city, which is said to be the United Kingdom of Alicia.
"Hey... Middle-earth belongs to the era of personal bravery, and it is finally gone forever..."
Looking at the broken city gate in the distance, and after touching the huge cannon body in front of him that was still hot and smoking, Groin sighed deeply while looking at the tower. On the wall of the German town, the soldiers who almost ran out and the rod kept waving the white flag indicating their willingness to surrender.
Although, the old dwarf himself had been prepared before this, and could probably imagine the performance of cold weapons in the face of muskets?
However, looking at the tragic battlefield ahead, he still made him sigh...The hundreds of human Dengdan knights with superb riding skills and heavy armors did not even touch the side of the Musketeers, just all I was easily killed by a group of women who had barely touched weapons before...
It seems that this little girl witch has created something amazing with the help of their dwarves! The rules of war in the future, under the raging guns and artillery, are afraid that major changes will occur, right?
Groyin, who has seen the actual combat effects of new weapons, feels that if he is armed with thousands of musketeers and a certain number of cannons, and with sufficient logistical supplies, perhaps, he will dare to lead an army of thousands, Push flat all the way, and keep hitting Mordor? !
"Your Excellency Anne, I seem to have discovered a little bit of the musket..."
"The first model of the'Goddess' Fury' rifle, the range is far enough, and the penetrating power seems to be good! However, I think its caliber is still slightly smaller, if it is to deal with very large targets. , It seems that the power is slightly insufficient?"
Groyin, who has been exposed to the complete process of making firearms, is not unfamiliar with the technology and technology of producing this weapon. He has fully understood the principle of this weapon construction, and soon remembered some better improvements.
That is: increase the caliber! He Groyin needs a bigger and thicker barrel, and a bigger and heavier tapered projectile!
After thinking about it for a while, he found that the 18mm caliber seemed to him a little bit smaller? If they were replaced by the dwarves themselves, it would definitely be possible to directly expand the caliber, at least about 30 millimeters? Anyway, their dwarves are strong, strong, with a low center of gravity, and a big caliber, so they don't have to be afraid of being overturned by the powerful recoil?
The more he thought about it, the more he found it feasible, Groyin decided to himself at the moment. When he returned to the town of Bray, he must privately tailor a 30-millimeter rifled rifle for the two hundred dwarves under his hand. See if Power can meet his own expectations!
"Deal with large targets? Increase your caliber? Do you want to fight dragons? Are there dragons in Middle-earth?!"
Little Annie was also a little curious about this dwarf's idea.
She had read the literature in Rivendell. Wasn't the last dragon to haunt the Middle-earth killed a few decades ago? Then why does he want to increase the caliber?
Could it be that there are still large and fun giant creatures like dragons in Middle-earth?
Anyway, in Annie’s opinion, the front-mounted rifled flintlock Mini rifle with long range, high precision and superior armor-piercing capability is already very good. She has directly crossed the smoothbore. Matchlock gun, this epoch-making super elite weapon has come out!
If it is added to 30 mm, it is a hand-held artillery, right? The humans in this Middle-earth world can't stand the powerful recoil!
Moreover, the battle just now is enough to explain: the'Goddess' Fury' muskets, at a distance of more than 100 meters, they can easily penetrate the enemy's knight's plate armor. Such power is not small. Right?
If it was necessary just now, they would shoot directly at a distance of 300 meters to suppress the opponent's city wall, and carry out long-range platoon shooting. They can hit until the opponent can't raise his head, or even until the opponent's morale collapses. ?
"Giant, giant dragon?!"
"No, no, Lord Anne! I don't want to fight any dragons anymore! And, I haven't seen any dragons other than the dead Smaug for decades!"
When talking about the dragon, Groyin hurriedly shook his head with messy beard and hair. He is not stupid himself, how could he go to trouble with the dragon for no reason?
The psychological shadow caused by Smaug in the Battle of Gushan decades ago has not been completely eliminated until now!
That kind of terrifying existence that is invulnerable to swords and guns, water and fire, and even melted gold can not be wiped out, the kind of mythological monster that can fly in the sky and breathe flames from hundreds of meters high, where are they? What can mortal people easily fight against?
If it weren’t for that Smaug’s underestimation of the enemy back then, and Bud from River Valley town, used a special black arrow to directly shoot into a defective unprotected scaly cortex of the opponent’s left chest, and thus killed the opponent by chance. The town of River Valley and the dwarves they had expeditioned to the Lonely Mountain were probably dead long ago? And there will be no Turin Dwarf Kingdom in the Lonely Mountains and Iron Hills now!
"Oh! By the way, Lord Anne! I also found a very important question!"
"That's what I think, in case, in the future, our enemies... I mean the half-orcs of Mordor or their allied forces! In case they also imitate this terrible gunpowder weapon by then, What should we do?"
In Groyin's view, even if the dwarves do not use those precision machine tools and steam boiler power for standardized industrial production, instead of handcrafting by their dwarves, they will have enough capacity for mass production copying and a large number of military installations, right?
In his own opinion, this is actually not too difficult, it is nothing more than a uniform iron pipe with gunpowder? And the only thing that is a bit difficult here, at best, is the correct formula of the rifling and gunpowder, right?
He has secretly experimented before: a hand-made rifled musket, if it fires a round lead shot, although the range and accuracy are not ideal, it is within a hundred yards at close range. At the time, its power is actually not worse than the rifled Mini rifle?
And this distance of one hundred yards alone is enough to suppress most of the archers in Middle-earth, as well as almost all the cold weapon army!
The only trouble is that the caliber of the hand-made musket may have a large error due to the skill of each craftsman? Then, will the projectiles have to be specially manufactured according to the caliber of each gun?
Or, simply hand out small crucibles and lead blocks, and let the soldiers smelt them with lead blocks according to their gun caliber and then rub them out by themselves? It's easier to melt the lead block anyway, right?
For the formula of gunpowder, it is actually much simpler!
For existences like the white robe wizard Saruman or the demon Lord Sauron, if the real object is captured by the opponent and a comparative study is conducted, Groin believes that they must be able to imitate the correct formula soon! After all, this kind of black powder is nothing more than a few very common materials. It is much simpler than the flash fire that their dwarves used to make if thrown out and explode...
"The enemy wants to imitate?"
Upon hearing this, Annie blinked, then tilted her head and thought for a while.
"I'm not afraid that they will imitate it! At that time, if they dare to imitate, then we will create even more powerful ones!"
For this, Annie is actually not too worried.
Because not only does she have drawings of various eras, but the Queen Ofina under her has now begun to train the core Royal Guard, intending to train some loyal men to specialize in the war workshop, as long as the steam turbine is kept. Just keep the secrets of those industrial machine tools, such as muskets and cannons, certainly can't be kept secret for a long time!
So, in Annie's opinion, those bad guys are at best imitating front-loaded muskets? At that time, the big deal they will create a more advanced breech Minnie needle rifle, regardless of the range and filling speed, they can definitely blow up those stupid enemies!
At that time, if they dare to continue to copycats shamelessly, then she will leap into the era of internal combustion engines and electrics, put on semi-automatic rifles and automatic machine guns with metal shells, and then suddenly kill them when the enemy is lined up?
If this is the case and can be copied, then the gods must have cheated! Then she will be shameless. When the time comes, she will directly use those electromagnetic rifles, siege tanks and space battleships, and then desperately lose the big Ivan, and if they have the ability, they will copy them!
"A more powerful musketeer? How powerful can it be?"
Groyin was a little stunned when he heard this.
He thinks that the current rifled rifles and cannons are enough! If the power is insufficient, the caliber and barrel length can be expanded at any time, so as to increase the power and range? Besides, he really couldn't think of any improvement that would be more advanced.
"Um...probably the kind that can shoot thousands of bullets per minute?"
After thinking about the sudden change of the Vulcan Cannon that she had come into contact with in the first New York world she had traveled through, Annie said with some uncertainty.
If she remembers correctly, it seems to be switched to a machine gun similar to the Vulcan, which seems to be thousands of bullets per minute, right?
"Thousands of rounds per minute? This is absolutely impossible!!!"
Groyin let out a scream on the spot, he really couldn't imagine, how could there be such a high-rate gun? No matter how hard you try, the ammunition can't be loaded so fast, right? With the current rifle, a few shots per minute is already amazing!
And if there is such a terrorist weapon with thousands of rounds per minute, he feels that he only needs to be alone, and then bring enough ammunition, he can completely push Mordor and blow up Sauron’s. Baradota? !
"Huh! You ignorant fellow! I have more powerful than that, and there are more!"
After glancing at the yelling bearded old dwarf next to her, Annie patted the little pony under her, leading the dozens of musketeers still stranded here and the team of artillery. The gunners began to walk down the hill towards the city.
Now, that Lenas had already entered the city, and quickly completed the control of the city's head area and the soldiers who had been surrendered to the former Ystad Town! Now, it was time for them to go in and see the new city she had attacked.

"Hey! I said Pippin, are we going to stay here like this now? I can make it dislike this gruesome cave at all!"
"Not only the air is muddy, but there is also a strong rancid smell..."
In Moria's mine, the little Hobbits Melly and Pippin got together again, and from time to time they looked at the upper Gandalf who was sitting alone and smoking a pipe and whispered.
Although their hobbits are also cave-dwelling creatures, they also like to make caves or make comfortable houses like cave dwellings, but they definitely don’t like staying in such deep and dark caves for long periods of time without seeing the sun. It will make them feel very depressed and disturbed!
After all, their hobbits are a normal race that likes to enjoy life and activities in the sun.
"Shhh..."
"Keep your voice down, Melly, let me tell you: the Gandalf above, he must be lost! Moreover, we will probably be trapped here forever and never get out!"
Previously, at the top of the Red Horn Pass, when they discovered the large group of black crows that the white-robed wizard Saruman used to monitor the pass area, they knew that they and the others had been exposed, so they had to follow Gandalf's opinion, trying to take Karahoras, intending to forcibly pass through the cold and icy world, over the misty mountains that towers straight into the clouds and is covered with snow all the year round!
Then, the white-robed wizard Saruman, who was thousands of miles away, used a long-range lightning bolt that was shot into the soul to teach them a cruel fact about this hot! That is: never try to climb a dangerous snow peak full of snow under the eyes of a wizard!
Therefore, after failing to cast the spell at the end, Gandalf was forced to helplessly. After being buried once by an avalanche, seeing that the hobbits could not adapt to the severe cold weather, almost all of them were about to freeze to death, they had to lead the team again Returning the same way, I intend to follow the previous dwarf Jinli's words, go to the Moria mine of the other party's cousin Bahrain!
However, it is a pity that Gandalf finally cracked the door of the dwarf and successfully escaped the door of the dwarf under Frodo’s reminder. Creatures, but after the big octopus that can survive in the freshwater lake, they found a surprising thing: in the mine of Moria, there is no cousin of Jinli, and there is no big cup of ale as mentioned before. , Thick soup, or chunky roast?
Here, what you have will always be the corpses of those dwarves and Wushan half-orcs! And the decayed armor, rusty weapons and arrows of the opponent! Right now, here in the Moria Mine, is a silent mountainside grave! It seems that these original dwarves have been dead for countless years?
Later, when they had to go deep into the mine and plan to venture through the Misty Mountains from the mine, they discovered an even more terrible fact: they are now lost in this huge mine!
Now, they have climbed the mountain again, and returned the same way. It has been more than 20 days since they left Rivendell...
"I think so, Gandalf must be lost! He is probably thinking about it now!"
"Yes, you may also know that old men like them are especially easy to forget some things!"
"..."
"We may really not be able to get out...unless, we go back along the same path?"
"No...I don't think any of us can beat the octopus monster outside the gate. I never thought that it has so many tentacles? It grows so big!"
"Then what do you say? There doesn't seem to be much food or drink here! Moreover, we don't carry much in our bags!"
Pippin and Melly, the hobbits, were still discussing in a low voice.
Although their voices have been suppressed very small, but in this empty and quiet Moria mine, their voices still make everyone hear clearly...
It's just that, now, like the two of them, who have the same worries and have their own concerns, are they temporarily not in the mood to care about them?
And Gandalf himself, who was muttering, was busy with his thoughts and memories right now, and he wanted to find his way out as soon as possible, and he was also not in the mood to talk to the two little hobbits.
"?!"
Suddenly, Frodo, who was in a daze, suddenly discovered that on the wall of the mine below, it seemed that a little vigorous figure was climbing? The other party's big and bright eyes are staring at him, and they seem to be malicious?
It was just that the distance was too far and the light was dim, so he could not see exactly what it was.
"Gandalf, there seems to be something below!"
When he discovered the situation, he ran to Gandalf's side and reported his findings in a low voice.
"That's Guru..."
Gandalf replied a little carelessly, he was still trying to recall the path in Moria.
Those damn, greedy dwarves, they dug the Moria pit too hard! Many things that have not been dug up before have all been completely changed by the other party. Not only has it added many paths, but also has countless more doorways and cabins. This is almost like a maze, and it really makes him unable to remember. Get up, where is the road that he was familiar with many years ago and can go out?
"Guru?"
Frodo didn't understand. Seeing Gandalf's appearance, he seemed to have already known this? Moreover, he doesn't seem to care about the thing that is following them at a distance?
"In fact, he has been with us for three full days... From when we walked down the snowy mountain and prepared to enter the Moria mine..."
For the Guru who has been following behind them, still reluctant to leave, Gandalf and the others have already discovered it, but they don't want to pay attention to it.
After all, the poor existence that has been distorted by the Lord of the Rings does not pose much threat to people like them. Except for the Hobbit, if it dares to come near, they can be relaxed here by themselves. To subdue each other.
"Guru? Hasn't he been caught long ago? Isn't it... he escaped again?"
For this matter, Frodo is still quite curious.
Because, in the Shire, when he was at Broken Cave, he remembered clearly that Gandalf had already told him that Guru, who knew the whereabouts of the Lord of the Rings, had already been given to him by Mordor’s minions at that time. Caught!
"Escape? No..."
"It is very likely that it was released deliberately! The Lord of the Rings brought it here again, and it will never be able to get rid of its desire for the Lord of the Rings... For the Lord of the Rings, it is like it is to itself, love and hate?"
Gandalf murmured while smoking his pipe.
"Smegg's life is actually a tragedy! It has been ruined by the Lord of the Rings..."
"Before the Lord of the Rings found it and it was not crazy about the Lord of the Rings, he was actually...Forget it, I still don't talk about this..."
Having said that, after looking at Frodo, who now holds the Lord of the Rings, Gandalf didn't know what he thought of, so he stopped quickly.
After that, Gandalf did not continue to talk to Frodo, but sighed slightly.
In fact, Gandalf not only knows Guru's past, but also why Guru was released at this time! Sauron or Saruman, they just want to use it to monitor the exact location of the Supreme Lord of the Rings? In this Middle-earth world, I am afraid there is nothing more useful than a humanoid self-propelled radar like Guru...
"It's a pity that Bilbo didn't kill it at the time!"
Frodo suddenly made such a horrifying sentence, which made Gandalf stop the memory and turned his head back.
"What a pity? Didn't kill it?"
"Frodo... you have to know that it is precisely because of the pity for life that prevented Bilbo from killing it in the first place..."
"Some people who live in the world are actually worthy of death long ago! And some people who shouldn't have died have passed away early..."
"Can you bring them back to life? Frodo..."
The last thing Gandalf wanted to see still happened.
It seems that the Lord of the Rings is having some very bad influence on Frodo? Let this hobbit, who was originally innocent and innocent, able to say such awe-inspiring words? In this way, Frodo does not seem to have enough willpower like his Uncle Bilbo?
You know, Bilbo Baggins held the Lord of the Rings for so long, for decades, and only in his later years, will he be gradually affected by the Lord of the Rings? But at any rate, he could control it by himself, and he took the initiative to leave the Lord of the Rings!
However, Frodo now...
"Frodo, you must remember: Don’t judge the life and death of others so easily! Even the wisest person can’t see through this... My instinct tells me that even this grum is still It has its own mission..."
"Whether it is righteous or evil... What Bilbo did may have affected the fate of many people..."
Taking a look below, the Guru who was climbing on a mining noose took a look, and then looked at the Frodo in front of him. They were actually very similar! Aren't Frodo and Gollum also the people whose fate was affected by Bilbo Baggins?
"But... When I was in Rivendell, the Lord Anne Witch told me... to deal with bad guys, it should be burned... Isn't it?"
After slowly sitting next to Gandalf, Frodo asked suspiciously.
During the period when Rivendell was recovering from his injuries, he did not deal with that little girl less, and he even took the initiative to give the supreme lord of the ring around his neck several times! Then, Frodo was surprised to find that: the little girl, she was the only one who would not be affected by the Lord of the Rings among everyone he had seen! This alone can make him admire.
In Frodo, I thought, that little girl Annie, she must be a very powerful wizard, even stronger than Gandalf? Therefore, in some cases, he would secretly remember the little girls who popped up from time to time and had a little marginal words in his heart.
For example: The best enemy is the dead enemy? My things are mine, and everything I fancy should be mine? Then there is: bad guys should be burned by flames! Who dares to provoke me, I will beat him? There are many, many more...
Anyway, Frodo felt that some words still made sense!
"It's Annie?!"
"Well... Frodo! I would like to warn you: If you want to have a good relationship with that little girl, I will never object! But, please keep in mind: never just imitate that little girl, and more Don't just trust her casually! Especially if you are not a wizard as powerful as her!"
After secretly taking a sip, knowing that it was not the Lord of the Rings that affected Frodo's thoughts, Gandalf quickly spoke out to correct him.
He didn't want this innocent Hobbit Frodo to be led by that nasty little girl! Look at her, what kind of dregs have been instilled in Frodo? Those ideas are wrong and undesirable!
"Okay, I know……"
"But in fact, Gandalf, I really hope that the Lord of the Rings has never been in my hands, and I hope none of this has happened..."
Imagine this thrilling thing. Since he obtained the Lord of the Rings, he was not only chased by the ring spirits, but also almost stabbed to death by a sword at the abandoned guard tower on top of Fengyun Hill? Then, when they started the expedition, they experienced being watched by crows, struck by a wizard with lightning, and almost buried alive because of an avalanche?
And now, when I walked into this mine, not only was he caught by a big octopus at the door and almost eaten, he even went astray? !
So, when so many things came to mind together, when Frodo saw that this period of time was much more than all the exciting things he had seen in his fifty years of life combined, and also After wandering on the edge of life and death almost every time, He Liu really feels a bit discouraged and doesn't want to go on like this anymore...
"Well, in fact, everyone who encounters difficulties will think like you! But, Frodo, please don't be overthrown by such a little difficulty in front of you! Sometimes, none of us can avoid our destiny , But we can at least choose how to overcome it!"
Seeing that Frodo, the preceptor, was a little discouraged, Gandalf hurriedly encouraged him.
"Frodo, you have to believe: In addition to those evil forces, there are some more magical existences in this world! For example: Bilbo, he is destined to get the Lord of the Rings, and you... are also destined to experience Everything you are going through now! Do you understand? You have to face it, not escape!"
Looking at Frodo in silence, he could only sigh secretly. There are some things that Gandalf really can't say too much, nor can he reveal too much, he can only click here now~EbookFREE.me~Aha! I think I finally know which way we should go, it must be this one! "
After calming Frodo, suddenly Gandalf stood up with a cheer, she finally figured out what direction she was going to take! Therefore, he once again used the gem on the head of the wand to emit a soft white light, then greeted the people and asked them to quickly follow him.
In this dangerous Moria mine, they have been delayed long enough, before they can really touch some dangerous existence, they must leave here cleanly.
"Did you remember the way out? Gandalf?"
Piping, who was following up, quickly asked, he really wanted to leave this oppressive dark world sooner, he didn't want to stay in a place where he couldn't see the sun and didn't know the time!
"No! I didn't!"
"It's just that the air on this road doesn't seem to be as bad as it is in other directions! My friend told me one thing: Sometimes, it’s always OK to follow your nose..."