Red dragon: in charge of natural disasters

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The Principality of Norton, near the Fallen Leaves Trail.

"Come on, the master is watching you!"

"This is the will of the great red dragon!"

"For the Kingdom of Burning Ember!"

Doro is leading an army of hundreds of hobgoblins and bugbears to march rapidly, traveling on a special path. Their mission is to capture the capital of the Principality of Norton - Kenyaza City as quickly as possible.

Although it is known as a principality, the territory of the Principality of Norton is not even comparable to that of some powerful principalities. There are only three cities in the country, and three-quarters of the country's population is concentrated in the city that the Principality of Bosque helped them establish - Kenyaza City. This name means "the place of rise" in Scanian language, which contains the ardent expectations of the Principality of Norton.

There are nearly 20,000 people in this city. Once it is captured, the entire Principality of Norton will basically be destroyed. The Burning Ember Kingdom's strategy was to use a "blitzkrieg" to attack the capital of the Principality of Norton and capture it directly.

To this end, they brought a total of ten artillery pieces, which were powerful siege weapons that the players from the Storm Ordnance Department worked overtime to build.

Fortunately, the power of the dragon-veined hobgoblins is strong enough, so that even if they carry artillery, they can march quickly without being dragged down by them.

The bugbears who followed Doro were a little confused:

"Sir, are these broken iron pipes really useful? I feel like they are not as good as the big sticks in my hands."

"Ignorant guy."

"Hmph, you'll see it soon."

"This is a real symbol of blood and fire."

Doluo grinned and sounded quite excited.

After experiencing many large-scale wars and tasting the benefits of firearms, this hobgoblin, who is well versed in war, has become a complete "reformer" and even became friends with the president of the Mechanicum, Steel Frenzy.

The city defenders, who had never experienced this kind of war, were not aware of the danger at all, and had not even discovered the Burning Ember Kingdom army that was well hidden and in a blind spot.

The well-trained hobgoblin soldiers set up the gun positions, calibrated them, and quickly completed the preparations.

The hobgoblin skirmishers were waiting for an opportunity, preparing to march.

Doro wiped the blood-fire battle ax in his hand, tore off a piece of meat stuck to it, and then shouted loudly:

"fire!"

The hobgoblins obeyed and placed the cannonballs inside.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The artillery roared, setting off bursts of thunder on the ground.

The bugbear just now was so frightened that he covered his ears, collapsed on the ground, and kept muttering: "What a... what a powerful iron pipe."

"Hmph, coward."

"You will no longer be a valet from now on."

Doro glanced at him disdainfully, his tone contemptuous.

Bugbears who are afraid of artillery fire are not worthy of being the bodyguards of the general of the Ember Kingdom!

"Ha ha ha ha!"

"That's it! Blow them up!"

Doro laughed loudly, feeling the wonderful smell of gunpowder smoke in the air. Even the loud gunfire could not hide his laughter.

The Principality of Norton previously sent most of its troops to join the coalition, but now there are only less than a thousand defenders on the city wall.

The defenders on the city tower had never seen such a formation before, with the sound of cannons and fire splashing everywhere.

They only saw blurry shadows streaking across the sky, and then their vision was occupied by explosions and flames.

Many of the soldiers on the city wall were killed by the bombing, while most of the remaining ones were still in a state of panic and did not even realize that the war was coming.

"Gods...is this divine punishment coming?"

"What exactly is this?"

"ah!"

"Where is the enemy?"

After hundreds of years of "assimilation" and "taming" by the Principality of Bosque, these former barbarians have lost the bravery and fearlessness of their ancestors.

Cannonballs rained down on the city wall wantonly. Under the baptism of artillery fire, the city wall that had stood for hundreds of years collapsed, leaving a gap several meters wide.

This is enough.

"charge!"

Doluo picked up the blood-fire battle ax with one hand and shouted sternly: "Come with me to attack the city! Crush them!"

He rushed to the front of the team, jumped into the gap with a big jump, and just swung the giant ax in a circle, and the more than ten defenders blocking there were all cut off in half.

"monster!"

"Help!"

"Oh my god, it's Doro, the jealous war madman!"

"It's the army of Burning Ember Kingdom!"

Doro became even more angry when he heard this nonsense title. He jumped dozens of meters to catch up and beat the rude human being into a meat pie with an axe.

"I'm Doro!"

"The most powerful general under the great red dragon!"

"It will also be your eternal nightmare!"

Doro swung his battle ax and roared angrily.

The hobgoblin sword and shield soldiers followed closely behind, slashing and killing the defenders on the city wall, unleashing their long-repressed desire to kill.

"Damn, these monsters!"

"I can't kill them at all!"

"Are those scales?"

Under the lightning offensive of the Ember Kingdom, the defenders on the city wall collapsed and fled one after another.

The hobgoblin skirmishers behind them raised their spears. Following the "free fire" order from the skirmisher captain, they opened fire one after another, shooting at the heads exposed on the city wall, causing many defenders to fall off the city wall.

Soon, the nearly a thousand defenders were wiped out.

Until now, this battle can no longer be called a battle, it is simply a one-sided massacre.

And this only took an hour.

To put it in layman's terms, it might take more than an hour to kill a thousand pigs, but the Burning Ember Kingdom's army managed to kill all the defenders in one hour.

Among them, Doluo turned into a killing machine and chopped down at least more than a hundred people with his own hands.

"There's a problem on the city wall!"

"What happened outside?"

"There seems to be an enemy!"

"I thought I heard thunder."

"Damn, what happened?"

The residents in the city didn't even realize what was happening and were still panicking. They didn't know that the city had been destroyed.

Soon, however, they understood this.

A loud dragon roar came from the sky.

"Roar--"

The ferocious flame illusion of the red dragon appeared over the city. His golden pupils looked down at the earth, and his wings seemed to be leaping flames, trying to burn the entire city.

"Gods above..."

"What kind of monster is this!"

"I, I know what that is..."

“Is that the legendary purgatory natural disaster?

People were frightened by the phantom of the giant dragon in the sky and fell into panic and fear. The crowd burst into an uproar.

"Hello residents of Kenyaza."

The monster in the air spoke slowly, its voice was heavy and majestic, and extremely oppressive.

"I'm here to inform you."

"From now on, there will no longer be the so-called Principality of Norton, only the Kingdom of Burning Ember."

"Everyone, welcome to the Ember Kingdom."