Chapitre 28: Trapping the roads - arc rise of the light kingdom
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Accompanied by Wulf, Fram immediately sets out on the trade route linking Seregost to the eastern countries of Mordor.
This road is a very important route for Mordor, since it stretches from the countries allied to Sauron directly to his capital and allows for a regular transfer of troops and goods.
The kingdom of light, which now owns this fortress, must guard it at all costs in order to cut off this road forever.
Fram obviously has most of the issues in mind, and knows how important it is to defend this fortress.
That's why even if he prevents the eastern army from reaching Nurn, a bigger army will be expected in Seregost, so he must prepare the ground.
Fortunately Wulf is a warg worshipper, and he has a large quantity of them in his possession, each snow warg can carry two people, and he has a hundred of them, so that's 200 men who can move to set traps while the rest of the army goes to the region east of Nurn according to Fram's plans.
"Wuhohoho, you see that! that's the beast, I personally trained these wargs, and you can see their effectiveness in the field! " says then Wulf putting an end to the silence
"Indeed, your wargs are extremely fast, I must say that they are beautiful beasts, you should train more of them" replied Fram, at ease on the warg although it was his first time riding one.
"Wuhohoho I intend to, I love these animals!"
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A few tens of minutes later the two arrived at a particular place in the middle of two cliffs.
Wulf then speaks " If you want to defend the road as efficiently as possible, this is where you have to do it, it's the main path and it's the narrowest part of the road, even if it's still wide and about 50 meters long ".
"It's very good, we should build a big wall to defend this valley, not one wall but several walls, with archer posted on each wall, no door should be present on the first wall, this way they will have difficulty to break it down "
"What? but you are crazy wuhoho, a wall of 50 meters wide? but how long do you think it will take to be built? I can work night and day but it will be too long, they will be there before this is finished, and you want several wall at that ! you have to reconsider your priorities" said Wulf
But Fram having a plan and seeing the place in which they are knows that it is possible.
"You see Wulf, I have some beauty at my disposal, it's some kind of stick filled with powder, and when we put it on fire, it explodes, in other words, an explosive!"
He said before continuing with his idea.
"My army is going south with explosives, they will blow up the bridges while the enemy army crosses them! It will be beautiful! and here, we will blow up the peaks that you see" he said pointing to the two rocky peaks at the edge of the road.
"The explosion should cause an avalanche of stone on the road, then it will be enough to make walls, for the moment we will be satisfied with that, but after this, I have other projects" he said confident in himself
"Explosives, sweet, really sweet, we can try, but I still doubt your plan" then turning to his army of orcs he shouts "Did you hear that guys? follow the orders of this man wuhoho".
"Very well, move back from the valley, I'm going to lay the explosives, once the rocks fall on the way, I'm going to use a very specific technique to make them easier to carry, your role is going to be to stabilize them and create a wall, I want 20 of you to go back to Seregost and come back with Graug, bows, tons of arrows, metal traps, woods, a lot of woods actually, and a flammable material "
Following his order the orcs move away from the area while some of them rush back to Seregost.
During this time, Fram uses his new powers acquired thanks to Talion and climbs the mountain at full speed while placing explosives, then he does the same thing on the other side, and then he links the explosives with gunpowder before going back down into the valley with the other orcs.
Then without waiting, he uses one of the skills inherited from Talion and invokes a spectral bow, then he shoots on the trail of powder blowing up the explosives.
*Boooooom*
Following a chain of impressive explosions, a large amount of smoke and dust covers the sky, it is only after about ten minutes that it disperses leaving the view of the valley.
Wulf is completely surprised " I- It's not possible... the valley is covered with stone " he says pointing at it.
Actually, with a length of 500 meters and a width of 50 meters, this narrow passage is covered on the major part of more or less big stone.
Fram, satisfied, uses once again his new skills. While Talion's attribute is ice, Fram has a rather special magical attribute, in fact he can use a form of telekinesis and can levitate objects.
So he uses his power to the fullest and lifts a small part of the debris near the entrance of the passage.
"Now use the levitating rocks to form a wall, let's hurry!" he says while maintaining his power.
Thanks to this power, it is much easier for the orcs to arrange the pieces of stone to form a solid wall.
The olog-hai as well as the orcs put the stones in place so that they hold together to form a wall.
The goal is that it can hold an assault, it must be thick.
In order to create a solid wall, several aspects must be respected.
In reality, a stone wall is composed of 3 walls, 2 exterior walls and 1 interior wall.
The two outer walls are made of hard stone, while the inner wall is filled with rubble and other materials to fill the space and make the outer walls stand.
Then, in order to make sure that the wall will stand properly and follow a precise trajectory, several pieces of wood that were brought with Fram are placed at the ends of the wall and at a 5 meter interval.
These wooden pillars are inserted into the ground with the pure force of the Olog.
Then the outer and inner stone walls follow the curvature of the wooden pillars to shape and strengthen the wall.
Soon the outer walls were built to a height of 2 meters, but wishing for a height of at least 4 meters, Fram gave the order to increase the height of the wall.
Moreover, in order to stabilize the structure, he gave the order to build pillars outside the stone wall, the objective is once again to make the structure more solid.
After a whole day of work, the wall of 50 meters wide and 4 meters high is finished, and this, largely due to the telekinetic power of Fram, allowing to lighten all the stones.
Not believing his eyes, Wulf can only laugh out loud "Wuhohoho, it's beautiful, I didn't think you could do it, well done friend, now what's next in your plan?"
The team of orcs that he sent to Seregost has already returned, Fram gives the way forward " Part of the orcs, under your command will prepare reserves of arrows, weapons and armor and rations in order to be stationed on this wall " he says pointing to the wall they just built.
"The other half is going to come with me and we're going to trap the passage, I've got enough explosives left to give them a surprise, we're also going to create holes with spikes, and other interesting traps".
"Sweet, really sweet, in this case I'll take care of it, come on guys, let's go" Wulf answers loudly, while leading his troops on the walls to prepare the defense of this strategic place.
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It's been 2 days now that Fram is in this valley to prepare this defense, his reasoning is simple, he wants to concentrate a small part of the enemy army to be able to eliminate them more easily and thanks to his traps he intends to take a large part of them, but he has no illusion, he knows that the wall will not hold, that's why with Wulf they planned to flee with warg once their objective is accomplished.
Having finished his project in the north, and knowing that the first part of the army is approaching the bridges in the south, he returns alone at high speed thanks to a warg.
Having left in the afternoon, he arrives only at night, joining his base camp with his soldiers.
And, just as he got there, he sees lights in the distance, the lights of the enemy army, advancing very quickly in their direction.
Without wasting any time, he orders his orc soldiers to get equipped, then he divides his 400 orcs in 3 distinct legions, each legion positions itself in front of each bridge, silently without any torch so as not to be spotted.
Even if the river is shallow and the current is not fast, it is quite wide, more than 100 meters wide, and the bridges are several kilometers apart.
According to his estimations, Fram thinks that the army should take only one of the bridges, being far enough from the others, but not knowing which one, he is more prudent to separate his army.
Posted on the middle bridge, he waits patiently for the arrival of the first torches on the bridge.
After an hour of waiting, the first torches make their appearance on the bridge, in the same moment he can already hear the noise of the steps of the army as well as the war songs.
'Stupid, very stupid, don't they know that they can be attacked? The torches, the noise of the steps, the war songs, I imagine that these madmen feel all powerful, after all they arrive with a large army, and must surely think that we don't know that they are coming' thinks Fram.
The lights quickly approach the end of the bridge, seeing their presence very close to his position Fram does not hesitate to give the order.
"Now!" he says
His orcs receiving the order set fire to the explosives, the light from the fires spread quickly to under the bridge, then without the army opposite being able to do anything.
*BOOOOOOM*
A gigantic explosion resounds in the dark night, the consequences are immediate for the enemy soldiers on the bridge.
A large part of them, blown by the explosion are killed on the spot.
The bridge collapses, and the other part falls into the water, their armor being heavy, they can't swim, and the majority of them simply have never learned to do so, living in a region without water.
The effect is immediate, more than a thousand men, dead on the spot.
Then, following this explosion, a second and a third one sounded.
In order to block all the passages, the other legions also blew up their respective bridges, preventing the enemy army from going in the direction of Nurn, and making them lose a lot of time, forcing them to join the other army further north.
But Fram was not satisfied with the result and continued on his way.
Having discovered a new use for his magic, he uses telekinesis on himself, making him float, and quickly moves to the other side, where the enemy army is.
As he gets closer, he can hear the frightened cries of the army on the other side.
Having previously planted some explosives at the entrance of each bridge, where the enemy army is concentrated, he only needs a well placed explosive arrow to generate new explosions.
*BOOOOM*
Once again, explosions shake the valley, this time in the heart of the enemy army, this explosion makes the enemy army tremble even more with fear, the explosion taking away more than 2000 men in one go.
Happy with this short victory, Fram returns to his men and heads back to Seregost to welcome the second army.
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