Chapter 171: Andongjia of Misty Mountain
Li Ang assigned dozens of archers to keep an eye on the retreating Jatu people, and then immediately ordered his troops to begin besieging the Misty Mountain people.
Unfortunately, the individual combat effectiveness of this team is not strong enough...
At this time, Leon somewhat missed the tough guys in Mettenheim.
The soldiers under his command were indeed brave and obedient, but they were not suitable for a large-scale melee, otherwise he would definitely let the strong men of Mettenheim lead the team to chase these Jatu people who betrayed their teammates.
Now he can only let the Jatu people retreat into the mountains and forests. His combat goal is to protect the stables, and the Noldor will do the killing of the enemies themselves.
The people of Misty Mountain were already having a hard time fighting the Noldor elves, and now they were surrounded from behind. They were certainly no match for them, and they had no way of escaping.
But at this time they showed quite terrifying fighting qualities - they did not run or panic, but all rushed towards the direction of the Noldor elves.
This group of Misty Mountain people launched a rare suicidal charge against the Noldor elves!
It was indeed suicidal, and even more brutal than the way the Jatu people had charged in the first place.
They did not have the tactical coordination ability of the Jatu people in groups of ten, and of course, they could not make a group charge when they were surrounded.
But at least half of the Misty Mountain people flew out at the same time, roaring and throwing their bodies onto the blades of the Noldor!
They rushed forward together, locked their bodies with the weapons of the Noldor that were stabbing or chopping at them, then tightly grasped the arms of the Noldor elves, and threw the Noldor elves, who were already few in number, to the ground and pinned them down.
The blood of the Misty Mountaineers splattered , but the Noldor's defense was broken in an instant!
Leon was even stunned for a moment, and then immediately rushed forward at the fastest speed... The method used by the Misty Mountaineers can really defeat the Noldor!
This is really a case of one thing defeating another...
On a conventional battlefield, this kind of flying pounce would inevitably result in the spears on the outside of the army formation being pierced.
There must be many spearmen in the human army.
Among the team that Li Ang led into the forest, there were fifty or sixty people carrying spears, which are indispensable weapons in human armies.
But the Noldor did not have spears - perhaps because the Noldor had been traveling in the forest for a long time, and long-pole weapons were not very convenient to carry, so the Noldor elves all used bows and arrows and swords and shields.
The result was that a large number of the Noldor elves did easily pierce the Misty Mountaineers in front of them with a sword, but were then locked to the ground and unable to move.
Then, these Noldor were also easily killed by other Misty Mountain people.
These Misty Mountain people, who were not considered strong in Leon's mind, actually managed to exchange one for one with the Noldor elves at this time!
The numerical disadvantage of the Noldor was infinitely magnified by this suicidal attack!
Only the two Twilight Knights were not bothered by the Misty Mountaineers' suicidal charge. They used their excellent fighting skills to avoid the enemies in front of them, and then created countless broken limbs among the Misty Mountaineers.
But the Noldor could not be stopped!
The Misty Mountain people got a huge opportunity by risking their lives. They protected a shaman-like guy and rushed through the gap created by the Noldor, intending to rush into the stable.
Leon had been rushing in the front. Now that he was closer and saw the situation inside the stable, he understood why they had to rush into the stable and why the Noldor had to guard in front of the stable - there were not only some foals in it, but also several seriously injured people and two Noldor children!
There could be enemies everywhere in the forest outside now, and it is indeed inconvenient to transfer the seriously injured and young children. This stable is actually the most suitable place to accommodate the wounded.
As for the Noldor elves, who have difficulty giving birth, they will of course protect the young children of the Noldor at all costs.
"Risa Dillan!"
The Lord shouted.
The Elf Killer naturally also saw the actions of the Misty Mountain Man. He was already near the stable, and seeing this, he ran all the way and shot an arrow. He was only a dozen meters away from the enemy in front, and the arrow he hastily fired while running still hit the target accurately.
The fallen Misty Mountaineer hindered his fellow tribesmen behind him, and then a Twilight Knight threw out the sword in his hand and blocked the enemy again.
Several Noldor elves who were thrown to the ground also tried their best to hold back some of the Misty Mountain people.
Leon ran all the way behind, and after the Misty Mountain Man in the front row was blocked several times in a row, he and Lisadilan arrived almost at the same time, and the Griffin Sword cut off a bloody head.
However, two Misty Mountain people still rushed into the stable one after another, they looked to be a man and a woman.
The Misty Mountaineer running in front was the shaman, and he was the only one wearing a unique helmet - he was the only Misty Mountaineer present who was wearing a barbarian horned helmet.
But just when Leon thought that the Misty Mountain people might kidnap the child, the woman suddenly stabbed the shaman in front of her in the back with a sword!
Then she gasped for breath and stabbed the shaman's throat again. After making sure that the Misty Mountain Shaman she had stabbed could not move, she dropped the sword, turned around and raised her hand.
“Ahhh…”
The Misty Mountain people outside screamed strangely. After the woman killed the shaman, the remaining Misty Mountain people collapsed almost instantly, and they immediately planned to flee in all directions...
However, fleeing in this situation would only result in death, and the Noldor and the archers brought by the lord quickly wiped them out.
But at present, there are only thirty Noldor elves who can still stand up and shoot arrows.
Just over a hundred Misty Mountain Wildlings caused the deaths and injuries of fifty Noldor elves - and this happened when they were surrounded, which really surprised everyone.
Although the Noldor guarding here are not the strongest nobles and rangers among the elves, at least each Noldor can be called an elite warrior or jungle killer, and their individual combat capabilities far exceed those of the Misty Mountaineers.
In fact, before the Misty Mountain people rushed to them, at least sixty or seventy people had been shot dead.
But who could have thought that after these Misty Mountain people rushed to the Noldor under a rain of arrows, they could actually cause such terrible casualties in hand-to-hand combat!
The berserkers of Misty Mountain are stronger than I thought...
Perhaps the woman in the stable was the only Misty Mountaineer who remained rational and calm.
She did not make any moves that could easily lead to misunderstandings. She just hobbled out of the stable with her hands raised and shouted, "I surrender!"
But the Twilight Knight didn't seem to want to let her go, and walked over and slashed at her head with his sword...
"Stop! She just saved your child! Are you out of your mind? She has already surrendered!"
The lord blocked the Twilight Knight with one sword, and Anson also ran over, looking at these Noldor elves cautiously.
Everyone on the field stopped.
Seeing that there was no fight, Anson took two medical team members to start treating the patients.
"I never thought I would get help from humans..."
Seeing Anson begin to treat the injuries of the Noldor, the Twilight Knight, whose body was covered in blood, relaxed.
Although his voice was full of doubt and his eyes looking at Leon and Anson were rather unnatural, he finally put away the sword in his hand.
There was both arrogance and unwillingness to face reality in his eyes.
It feels like when humans were besieged by a group of monkeys, they received help from another group of monkeys...
This guy probably has a deep hatred for humans.
It seems that this Twilight Knight is not easy to deal with. The lord simply ignored him and signaled Lisadilan to come over and meet him.
Lisadiran came over and made a few mocking remarks: "You people of the Fenwei family have lost even the most basic etiquette now? You can't even distinguish between good and evil, right? Lord Leon came here specially to help you, but you didn't even say thank you. What kind of attitude is this?"
Lisadiran is a noble of the Aino family, so of course he doesn't need to give any face to the people of the Fenwe family...
"I know you, Lisadiran... It seems that you have joined the human race after being exiled? It is a shame for the Noldor..."
Those who can become Twilight Knights are naturally nobles, and they responded to Lisadilan's ridicule without showing any weakness.
Leon had experienced the attitude of the Noldor towards humans, as well as the condescending arrogance unique to the elves - in fact, when he first met Lisadiran, Lisadiran also showed indifference to humans.
This is probably something engraved in the bones of the elves. They may still believe that they are the masters of this land, or that any other creatures are just animals no different from wild boars and wild deer.
This is a disease that needs to be treated—and the Lord has medicine...
It was obvious that Lisadiran had been cured by Li Ang using horse dung eggs.
However, now is not the time to provide psychological counseling to the Noldor, so Leon first walked up to the woman from the Misty Mountain.
"Tell me, what's going on?"
Li Ang pointed at the Misty Mountain Shaman lying on the ground, who was stabbed to death by a woman.
The shaman lying on the ground was holding the shield of the Ebony Gauntlet Knights, and the armor on his body was obviously put together from various places - the breastplate and shoulder armor were not matched, and the inner chain mail was damaged, which were obviously spoils of war.
Only his helmet looked like his own.
It was a very strange one-piece cast iron helmet, probably formed by pouring molten iron directly onto an animal's head - or perhaps it was poured onto a human's head. In any case, the helmet looked like half a skull cap, and the traces of molten iron flow were very obvious.
There is a pair of iron horns on the top of the helmet that are polished very smoothly, and they seem to be solid...
Perhaps the symbolic significance of this pair of iron horns is greater than their actual function, because this thing must be extremely heavy on the head, and it must be extremely uncomfortable to wear.
But the woman was not wearing a helmet, only a fur robe, and there was a purple mark on her face drawn with potion, which looked like a cat's footprint or a bear's paw print.
The woman was also seriously injured. The skin and flesh on her waist were rolled up, blood was flowing, and her face was pale. It seemed that she had lost too much blood.
She looked at the corpse on the ground and the long sword thrown next to the corpse, and actually smiled.
It was a Ravenstern longsword, which should have been the standard equipment of the Ravenstern dragon knights.
"I am Andonga of the Cat's Claw Tribe... My lord, you look like the Lord of Pendor, but why do you want to help the Noldor?"
An Dongjia looked at Li Ang with strange eyes. She looked very calm and did not seem to have any regrets about the death of those Misty Mountain people. Instead, she had a look of relief.
"An Dongjia, answer my question first...Are these Misty Mountain people your subordinates? How did you get mixed up with the Jatu people?"
The lord thought Andongjia's condition looked a little strange, so he signaled to Anson to come over and bandage the woman. Her wound had been bleeding, and if the bleeding was not stopped, she might fall into a coma and could not be questioned.
"Hahaha……"
An Dongjia suddenly laughed: "They are not my subordinates... My Lord... They are my enemies!"
As she was speaking, she staggered. It turned out that the woman had indeed lost too much blood.
Anson had just walked to Andongjia's side, realized something was wrong, and helped Andongjia up.
But his strength was too weak, and they both fell to the ground, with Andongjia falling on Anson.
This was clearly the kindness in Anson's bones, as he did not let the weak wounded man fall directly to the ground.
Andongjia laughed again: "Thank you, shy boy..."
She was talking to Anson.
"An Dongjia, what's going on?"
Li Ang felt that An Dongjia was full of stories.
"My Lord, these are from the Bear Claw Tribe, and I am from the Cat Claw Tribe. I am not in the same group with them. I just want revenge..."
She looked back at the dead shaman again, with obvious satisfaction in her eyes.
Andonga is a Misty Mountaineer from the north of Ravenstern. Her father is the leader of the Cat's Paw tribe.
But she shared a similar fate to Risa Dilan, as she was also exiled by the tribe.
This was because she led the Misty Mountain Raiding Team and was ambushed by Earl Stephen in Ravenstern, and almost all of her Misty Mountain men were killed in the ambush.
But this ambush was not due to the high tactical level of Count Stephen of Oldenburg in the Raven Stern Territory - but because the people of the Bear Claw Tribe betrayed her.
There are countless tribes north of the Misty Mountains, they are a tribal alliance.
In fact, the term "Misty Mountain Wildlings", which is used to describe the northern raiding tribes, was actually spread by the original Pendor people of Ravenstern due to misunderstanding.
Until now, the Pendor have always mistakenly believed that the Misty Mountaineers were wild people living in the misty highlands and snowy mountains of the north.
But in fact, the Misty Mountains are as strange to the 'Mist Mountain People' as they are to the Pendor people - they actually live on the other side of the Misty Mountains, a land that the Pendor people have never set foot on and there is not even a map for it.
The permafrost north of the Misty Mountains is desolate and empty. The perennially cold environment is not suitable for growing crops, and large-scale grazing is impossible in the ice and snow. This place is like a real hell, bitter, cold and barren.
Therefore, due to environmental factors, the development speed of the Misty Mountain Tribe is far slower than that of the Pendor civilization.
In ancient times, the Misty Mountain tribes were a society that operated on a 64-year cycle - a regular cycle of population decline and increase discovered by the Misty Mountain shamans.
Simply put, every 64 years, Misty Mountain will go through a cyclical cycle.
During the peak population period, there was a shortage of farmland and livestock to support the Misty Mountain tribes, which would lead to widespread famine. During this time, the tribes would fight each other for resources, which would reduce the population and cause animals such as deer to repopulate.
Then, the wars between tribes stopped, and they began to recuperate, and this barren land with a sharply reduced population began to recover.
When the population reaches its limit again a few decades later, the cycle begins to repeat itself...
For a long time, this cycle that repeats every 64 years has gradually led the shamans of various tribes to form a unified tacit understanding under this rule - every time this cycle is approaching, the shamans will initiate wars between tribes in the name of the god "Viyovis", and will not stop fighting until a certain number of people have died.
'Vijovis' is the mountain god worshipped by the Misty Mountain people. In fact, this image is a silver mountain cat, or rather, a snow leopard.
The Misty Mountain people believe that only shamans can see 'Veyovis' and communicate with the gods, so they will continue to kill each other in this cycle according to the shaman's will.
In this cycle, the Misty Mountain Tribe once regarded the Misty Mountains, which were more than 6,000 meters above sea level, as an insurmountable boundary. They had not crossed the Misty Mountains to enter the continent of Pendor for thousands of years. In fact, they did not even know that there was such a large continent south of the Misty Mountains at that time.
It was not until hundreds of years ago that a hunter named Pathfinder Deerfoot was called by the gods and crossed the mountains for the first time.
In the legend of Misty Mountain, when the hunter named Deerfoot saw the huge silver-white mountain cat called 'Vyovis', his tribe was facing an inevitable war due to the 64-year cycle.
Having seen with his own eyes the gods worshipped by the Misty Mountain people, he followed the giant mountain cat all the way across the Misty Mountains. Thus, this tribal hunter from the north of the Misty Mountains saw the wider land for the first time.
Although many shamans tried to prove that Deerfoot was just a hunter, not a shaman, and could not see Vigvis, no one could prove that he really crossed the Misty Mountain. But as the 64-year cycle approached, the news of large tracts of arable land south of the Misty Mountain led many Misty Mountain tribes to cross the mountains to escape the war and enter the base established by the early Pendor in Ravenstern.
Although the cold Ravenstern is not a good place for most Pendor people - in fact, Ravenstern was originally just a place for exile of criminals. It is difficult to grow seeds from the south in the cold north, and most of the time these exiled Pendor people have to endure famine.
But these Misty Mountaineers who crossed the snowy mountains to escape the war, these people who passed through real hell and came to Ravenstern, they knew how to select cold-resistant seeds that would maximize the harvest.
They taught the Pendor people the agricultural knowledge they had gained on the ice field, and the exiles, who were already struggling to survive due to the large land area and small population, also welcomed these outsiders. As a result, the two races supported each other, lived together on this land, and gradually merged into one.
In fact, for the current continent of Pendor, the people of Crowstern are the common descendants of the people of Pendor and the people of the Misty Mountain. The so-called Misty Mountain savages that the Crowstern Kingdom has been fighting against are actually of the same blood as them.
Those 'Highland Warriors' in Zhuiwan are actually all the most direct descendants of the Misty Mountain people.
The people of Ravenstern, especially those near the Bay of the Fallen, can probably be called 'Southern Misty Mountain People', while those tribes that still remain north of the Misty Mountains can probably be called 'Northern Misty Mountain People'.
Originally, the first group of Misty Mountain people came to Pendor and brought peace and friendship, but then things changed.
The shamans and tribal leaders of the Northern Misty Mountains have turned their attention to the lands of Sternraven to the south of the mountains.
