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Chapter 217: Responding to a crisis!

Essinger.

Thick smoke billowed and black clouds filled the sky.

In the vast and incomparably circular square.

There are many heavily armed black army phalanxes.

A black flag symbolizing Isengard and Saruman was fluttering.

"hold head high"

Desolate, the sound of thick horns resounded through the sky.

Countless troops roared with all their might.

Saruman, who was standing on the top of the Orthanc Stone Tower, looked at the army below and just raised his hand.

All sounds disappeared immediately.

Saruman looked down at the army, the kingdom, which was entirely his own, and his face was filled with endless satisfaction.

"It's time to show the world the power of Essinger, victory will only belong to us."

"Tonight, the blood of Rohan will stain the earth red"

"Go into Helm's Deep and kill them all."

"Now, let's go!!!"

Saruman with fluttering long hair stood on the top of the Orthanc Stone Tower and roared like a madman.

"hold head high"

"hold head high"

The sound of the passionate horn resounded through the sky again.

The black army phalanx began to move slowly.

Looking at the army below.

Saruman said grimly: "From today onwards, there is no hope for the human world, and darkness will rule the world."

Behind him, Grima suddenly recovered from the extreme shock just now.

Fangorn Forest.

In the dense towering forest.

The two little hobbits, Merry and Pippin, were sitting comfortably on the shoulders of Ent's tall trunk, and followed Treebeard to the south of the forest.

At this time, Treebeard walked up to a higher mountain in Fangorn Forest, and Pippin sitting on his shoulder immediately noticed the thick black smoke rising from the end of his line of sight, and immediately said, "Look, there is a thick cloud over there." cigarette."

Treebeard turned his head slightly, and said without surprise, "It's been a long time."

"Thick smoke keeps rising from Isengard."

Treebeard opened his mouth slowly.

"Essinger"

Meri, who was sitting on the other shoulder, immediately frowned and thought about this name that seemed to have some impression.

"Yes."

"The Lord of Isengard, the white-robed wizard Saruman used to roam in my forest."

"But now his heart is full of metal, gears, and he doesn't care about everything else."

Treebeard opened his mouth slowly, and kept walking forward.

Merry, having remembered something, immediately climbed to the higher trunk on Treebeard's shoulders.

Seeing this, Pippin immediately followed suit.

Soon, when the branches of Treebeard were at the highest point of the two of them, the two of them could see in the distance at a glance, in the direction of Essinger, a black army phalanx was marching towards the distance.

"what is that?"

Pippin spoke in shock.

"That is Saruman's army, and the war has begun."

Meri had already thought of something, and immediately looked at Pippin, his little friend next to him, and said, "I have to do something."

Pippin obviously knew enough about his best partner, and seemed to have thought of what the other party was thinking, so he nodded immediately.

The hobbits then began to talk about the war.

But Treebeard, who didn't know how long he had lived, naturally understood what the two wanted to say.

"It's been a long, long time since our Ents have stayed out of the wars between human wizards"

"The fact that Saruman started the war deserves attention."

"But we have more important things now, things that haven't happened in over 100 years."

"what's up?"

"Enter Assembly."

Helm's Deep.

It is a canyon area in the south of West Rohan, north of the White Mountains, at the base of a huge mountain.

The left and right sides of the valley mouth area are the cliffs of the white mountains, the front is a vast flat land, and the rear is also a steep mountain wall.

In the middle is the true name of Helm's Deep: "Fort Horn".

Horn Fort, also known as "Sousse Fort", was once a magnificent fortress belonging to Gondor.

Later, along with the huge land of Rohan, it was given to Rohan together.

The Horn Fort is built on a huge boulder "Horn Rock" protruding from the cliff on the north side of Helm Deep Valley.

The Horn Fort has two tall and strong walls inside and outside, which surround the inner and outer courtyards of the Horn Fort respectively.

Surrounding the huge wall of the outer courtyard, the thick and tall city wall with a length of more than 100 meters encloses the entire Horn Fort.

The inner wall protects the main building of the Horn Fort. It is taller and thicker than the outer wall, but its length is much smaller.

Snowflakes are flying in the sky, getting bigger and bigger.

The residents from Rohan Edoras finally walked into the Horn Fort led by Princess Eowyn of Rohan after exhaustion and fright.

At the gate of the tall city of Horn Fort, the left-behind soldiers who had already heard the news had already opened the gate to welcome the residents from Edoras.

Looking at King Theoden in front of him, surrounded by soldiers, he walked into the gate of Horn Fort.

Morgan and Legolas Kimli rode slowly at the end of the huge team.

Three people and three horses, after going through battles and the embarrassment of falling off the horses several times in the past few days, Jin Li was already able to ride on the back of the tall horses so that he would not be easily thrown off.

It was afternoon.

It was growing dark and gloomy.

When the three of Morgan followed the huge team into the Horn Fort.

It was already dark.

The Hornhold is obviously much smaller than Edoras in Rohan.

But as the strongest castle in Rohan, and the castle that Rohan has always regarded as the last stronghold, it is naturally not that small.

The Horn Fort, which accommodated the entire population of Edoras and the hussars, was a little crowded, but it definitely wouldn't allow the residents to crowd into the aisles or passageways.

As a member of Gandalf who saved the kingdom of Theoden.

Not long ago, when the half-orc wolf knights attacked, they made a strong record for all to see.

The three of Morgan, who were valued by King Theoden, were quickly assigned to a room.

The room is not spacious, but it is enough to sleep three people.

The three of them had just stepped into the room before they even had time to unload their weapons and equipment.

On the back foot, several attendants brought in the dinner for the three of them.

Compared with other residents, they only have the roughest and simplest food such as bread soup.

Morgan's dinner for the three of them was very rich, with smoked fish steak, sausage, bisque, fruit, beer and other foods, and the portion was enough for three people to eat.

After a busy and tiring day, eating dinner and drinking cold beer is the most relaxing time of the day.

The three of Morgan chatted while eating, and they naturally talked about several partners.

"Aragorn and Boromir must have reached Minas Tirith, the white city of Gondor, by this time. I don't know how they are doing now?"

Because of his race, Legolas' taste was much lighter than Morgan's and Gimli's. After drinking a few bowls of thick soup and eating some fruit, he put down the tableware, wiped his mouth and spoke.

"With the national power of Minas Tirith, it will definitely be no problem to save Boromir."

"Presumably Aragorn may already be on his way to Rohan."

Morgan thought for a moment to answer, and then said: "I'm a little worried about Frodo and Sam."

"Bringing such an extremely evil thing as the Supreme Lord of the Rings, it is difficult to imagine the difficulty of going to the Doomsday Volcano, the lair of Modo."

Morgan said softly, and Legolas and Gimli were also silent.

“really difficult”

"Uh uh."

Gimli chewed food and talked, seemed to be choked and suddenly rolled his eyes.

He quickly picked up a full glass of beer with one hand and drank it.

grunt
Until the beer in a tall wooden barrel glass is drunk.

Only then did Jin Li pat his chest and said calmly: "It's a pity that those two little guys don't want to go with us, otherwise it wouldn't be so dangerous."

"Gandalf has approved of Frodo's thoughts and actions."

Hearing Jinli's words, Legolas shook his head.

"Gandalf is always saying some inexplicable things that people can't understand."

"I don't understand. Isn't it much safer to go on the road with us than the two of them alone?"

As Jin Li said, he poured himself a big glass of beer again, and said in a puzzled way.

Regarding Gimli's words, Legolas gave Morgan a weak look, and Morgan showed the same expression.

What he said to Jinli is too complicated and specious, and he must not be able to understand such mysterious words as fate.

Saying more is just asking for trouble, this kind of thing has happened more than once.

So the two of them shut up.

But Gimli obviously didn't feel this, and said while eating and drinking, "I don't know where Gandalf is now?"

"Where do you think he's going?"

Jinli said and looked at the two partners in front of him.

Legolas frowned slightly, and when Edoras Gandalf left, he only said to ask for help, but did not say where to seek reinforcements.

But the few forces closest to Rohan can be counted out.

The north is Roslorien, the forest of gold;
In the west is Isinger, the archenemy Saruman;
In the south is a majestic and continuous white mountain range that cannot be read at all. Behind the white mountain range is the territory of Gondor.

The east can also be regarded as the territory of Gondor, and Minas Tirith, the capital of Gondor, is there.

And "Modo", the dark demon's lair farther to the east.

If Gandalf wants to ask for help to save Rohan and Helm Deep, theoretically only the Golden Forest in the north and Gondor in the east can be counted on.

But Boromir said before that the situation in Gondor at this time is not good, and they are too close to Mordo.

Legolas thought it unlikely that Gandalf would go to Gondor for help.

However, Aragorn and Boromir are in Gondor at this time, and there is a possibility of going there to ask for help.

And then there's Lothlorien.

Take the relationship between Lord Celeborn and Lady Galadriel and Gandalf.

There is a good chance that Gandalf is going to the Golden Forest.

"do not know"

Legolas shook his head, and added: "Perhaps it is possible to go to Lothlorien."

Morgan nodded as well.

If it weren't for the memory plot in his mind, from a pure analysis, it is most likely that Gandalf will indeed go to the Golden Forest for help.

Beyond that is Gondor.

But Gondor, at this time, is too overwhelmed to deal with the increasingly powerful Modo, so there is no spare force to support Rohan.

What's more, the current ruling prime minister of Gondor "Denethor" is not so easy to talk to
There was a lot of noise outside the room.

inside the room.

Morgan drank the large glass of cold beer on the table in one gulp, and then put down the tableware.

Jinli was still eating.

Gimli is not as good as Morgan in terms of food intake, but Morgan is not as good as Gimli in terms of how long he eats.

But he knew that supper was the most important meal among dwarves.

The happiest and most enjoyable time of their day is dinner time.

So they all ate very slowly and enjoyed it.

Morgan wiped his mouth, got up and walked out the door.

At this time, the snowflakes in the sky became even bigger, and the whole sky was covered with heavy snow, which made the entire Horn Fort even colder.

The Horn Fort was very noisy, and there were people walking around.

Morgan was in the inner city of the Horn Fort at this time, and he strode towards the tall city wall ahead against the wind and snow.

Not long after, when they walked up the thick and tall city wall, they found that King Theoden was leading Eomer and another hussar leader standing on the city wall, talking about something.

"grown ups."

Morgan stepped forward to say hello.

"You came just in time for Morgan, and I was just about to send someone to look for you."

Seeing Morgan's figure, Theoden said and immediately went up to meet him.

The two stood side by side in front of the tall city wall of the inner city, and Theoden pointed to the huge, thick, and sturdy giant city wall of the outer city in front of him and said, "How is it?"

Of course Morgan knew what Theoden wanted to hear, and although it was true, he said, "Indestructible."

"Yes, indestructible."

"Saruman will never break through here."

Theoden said confidently, and then turned his head to look beside him: "Morgan, I ordered you to be the commander of the outer city, are you interested?"

"My outer city commander?"

Morgan looked at Theoden with some surprise. Although his personal strength was stronger than anyone in the entire Horn Fort, he had never led a large army of soldiers to fight.

But this kind of experience is extremely rare, so he naturally wants to try it.

"certainly."

Morgan looked at Theoden and nodded, and continued: "But I don't have much experience in this field, this battle is so important."

Morgan shook his head as he spoke.

Although not explicitly stated, he expressed his refusal.

As he said, the importance of this battle is unparalleled.

It is absolutely inappropriate for me to become a commander rashly, who has never had any command experience.

Morgan still has something in mind.

"Don't worry too much, we won't go out this time"

Theoden stood beside Morgan and stated his purpose.

This battle of defending the city is different from a field battle. It does not require too much command, nor does it need to be pulled out to set up a formation or something.

Moreover, he knew that the number of Saruman's army would definitely exceed the strength of the Horn Fort.

Theoden wanted to use Morgan's powerful personal force to sit on the outer wall, so as to stimulate the morale of the soldiers and make them fight more bravely.

Speaking of this, Morgan naturally has no reason to refuse.

"To win, it's also my pleasure."

Morgan said as he nodded and saluted King Theoden, but when he turned his head, he found Legolas and Gimli standing beside him at some point.

And beside Theoden, Eowyn, who was wearing a blue simple long dress, also stood there.

"Essinger is not too far from Helm Deep Valley, they may appear here at any time."

"Order, from now on, everyone is not allowed to go out."

"Lock the city gates and strengthen the defense, and prepare everything you need, and be ready to face the battle at any time."

Theoden finished explaining to Éomer next to him, and then looked at Morgan: "Let's go Morgan, let's meet your soldiers together."

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(End of this chapter)