The dwarf team of hundreds of people finally came to the outside of Denzel City that night.
The arrival of a team of dwarves will naturally arouse great surprise. In order not to cause confusion or panic, Xiaya specially sent a cavalry team of 100 people to guard the team of dwarves along the way, leading them into the city, and at the same time. Clear the road to avoid any confusion caused by too many onlookers.
Dwarves can be said to be one of the most special races on this continent - first of all, the relationship between dwarves and humans is not very good, and it can even be said to be a bit bad. The dwarves live in the Blue Basin on the Wildfire Plain. They don't like to deal with humans, so generally speaking, humans cannot enter or even get close to the Blue Basin. Although the dwarves are naturally excellent craftsmen, the weapons and armors they make have always been expensive treasures on the mainland, but the difficulty of obtaining a piece of equipment made by the dwarves is enough to make 99% of the people discouraged.
Dwarves are xenophobic by nature, and are hostile to any other race that enters their territory. Anyone who dares to enter the territory of the dwarves will be attacked by the dwarves.
And the fighting power of this race is also amazing. The dwarves are born with infinite strength. Even the old women and underage dwarves of the dwarves are far stronger than a strong young human. These strong, sturdy guys are accustomed to using hammers as weapons - ordinary human warriors can hardly resist a dwarf's hammer.
According to legend, in the human world, only a very small number of chambers of commerce that have been recognized by the dwarves or have established a trust relationship with the dwarves can enter the territory of the dwarves at certain times and conduct some extremely limited transactions with the dwarves. . This also makes anything handcrafted by the dwarves able to easily sell for sky-high prices on the mainland.
If nothing else, it's just that Hastings' three-edged war gun is the best weapon produced by the dwarves!
When the dwarf team entered the city, Char also ran outside the city to watch.
From a distance, this team of hundreds of people has more than 200 carts—the shapes of these dwarf carts are very different from human carriages.
The carts of these dwarves are very low, and the wheels are at most one-third the height of ordinary carriage wheels, but they are wider and longer, and each cart has at least eight wheels.
It is not a mule or other animal that pulls the cart, but a special animal raised by the dwarves, called the "earth-walking beast".
The appearance of this kind of terrestrial beast is a bit like a dragon - of course, Dora expressed her dissatisfaction and protest for this feeling of Char. In Dora's view, it is a kind of blasphemy to the dragon family to associate the low-level low-level creature such as the Earth Dragon with the noble dragon family.
However, Xia still felt that she was right.
This terrestrial beast really looks a bit like a dragon—only much smaller than a dragon, with no wings, a slightly shorter neck, and thicker, shorter legs.
Because the legs are too short, the running speed of this kind of ground beast is very slow, and even an ordinary human can run faster than this kind of thing as long as he runs faster.
But although the speed is not fast, this ground beast has a very strong characteristic: its load-bearing ability is extremely excellent!
The load-bearing capacity of an earth-moving beast can reach thousands of kilograms! This is absolutely impossible for horses to do.
Humans are not ignorant of the excellent load-bearing capacity of this animal, but unfortunately, so far, apart from the dwarves, no other race has successfully domesticated this ground beast.
I don't know how the dwarves domesticated this kind of thing - this kind of ground beast seems to be docile, but it is actually very violent. Only under the drive of the dwarves, it is docile like a sheep.
However, all the truly experienced witchers on the Wildfire Plains know how terrifying this kind of thing is. This kind of terrestrial beast has the innate ability of earth magic, which can gather sufficient earth elements on the surface of the body, so that its The body can become as hard as a rock in a short time, and the sword is hard to hurt. Even a mid-level samurai's grudge would be hard to penetrate the body of this kind of thing.
But this animal is docile and obedient in the hands of the dwarves.
Looking at this team, there were more than 200 ground beasts pulling the carts in the two hundred carts. These low-level beasts with gray or black skins had huge iron rings around their necks, with iron locks on both sides. The cart behind him hooked, and then the fully loaded carts slowly moved forward. Some ground beasts raised their heads from time to time and made an "ang-ang" cry when they were walking.
Compared to these terrestrial beasts, Char is more interested in the dwarves in these teams.
From Char's point of view, these guys are really short. Most of the dwarves are not much different in height than goblins—even slightly shorter.
But dwarves are much thicker than goblins!
There are at least four hundred dwarves in this team, and almost every dwarf is extremely majestic. Although they are short in stature, they all have broad shoulders, thick chariots, and thick arms and legs like tree trunks! It looks like a small iron lump.
All dwarves have one thing in common: they all have long beards, most of them can almost drag their beards to their waists, and a few can even drag their toes. Their long beards are braided in various fancy braids—just like human women's hair.
But there are many dwarves with bald heads.
They are all wearing black iron armor, which looks dark and even a little rough-this makes Char a bit disappointed. He thinks that since the dwarves are the best craftsmen in the legend, then the armor they built for themselves They should all be excellent and high-quality goods, but why are these guys wearing black and inconspicuous things
But he noticed one thing: the armor on these dwarves is thick iron armor, such an iron armor, I am afraid that the weight is not light! And almost every dwarf carries a grotesque sledgehammer with what looks like a sharp spear point on the tip.
"You said, what will be in these carts they brought?" Dora couldn't help but ask with a smile in her mind.
Xia Ya curled the corners of his mouth: "How do I know..."
"I haven't seen a few dwarves either. But I heard that the dwarves look very strange... Even their women have long beards and speak gruffly like men."
Xia Ya's face suddenly became a little weird - a woman with a long beard
After the dwarf team of hundreds of people came to the outside of the city, they stopped, making the cavalry team escorting along the way a little embarrassed.
Seeing that the team stopped outside the city and did not leave, Xia Ya immediately led someone on horseback to meet them. He saw the cavalry captain who was in charge of escorting these dwarves quickly riding to report in front of him.
"My lord... these dwarves refused to enter the city, they insisted on seeing you first."
"Refused to enter the city?" Xia Ya frowned: "Why?"
The cavalry captain was also at a loss, what Xiaya wanted to say, but Dora in her mind said, "Ah! I see... Well, little Xiaya, you don't have to guess, these dwarves really won't enter the city. . This is a tradition, or rather, a rule of their dwarven race."
"rule?"
"Well... it's a rule." Dora's voice seemed a little strange: "Since a war in ancient times, various races and humans have fallen out... Among them, the dwarves and humans have forged some grudges, and the ancestors of the dwarves stayed I have ordered... No dwarves are allowed to enter human cities. Dwarves are a race that respects traditions very much, so they will not violate this ancient rule."
"... This way." Xiaya touched his nose: "Then... let them live outside the city, um, let them live outside the military camp, isn't the old camp before our new army city empty? You can let them move in temporarily."
As Xi Ya said, he passed the order to the cavalry captain.
Then Xiaya pondered for a while before frowning and said, "Okay, let's go too... Let's meet these dwarves and see what they come to deliver... "
To be honest, Xia Ya was also very curious.
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The dwarves showed a cooperative attitude, and they soon settled in the old barracks outside the city, led by cavalry.
This old barracks was built on the basis of the garrison's barracks. During the period, it was burned down during the first siege of the city by the Odins. It was later repaired and the new recruits were trained here. After Xia Ya established the new army half a month ago, the first corps was established, and the army was pulled to the newly established corps camp, and the place was empty.
To be frank, the conditions here are rudimentary, with only a few empty barracks left—most of which are made of burnt earth for walls.
But the dwarves didn't seem to show the slightest dissatisfaction with the poor conditions. After they moved in very simply, they parked two hundred vehicles at the gate of the camp, and immediately separated one-third of the people, untied the ground beasts that were pulling the carts, and then drove them to the ground. The beasts were grazing everywhere in the camp, and many dwarves also carried huge cloth bags from the carts, poured out piles of fodder from which they did not know what it was, and fed these ground beasts. While eating, some dwarves took some strange big brushes and brushed the bodies of these terrestrial beasts. Those terrestrial beasts seemed to enjoy this kind of scrubbing. Many terrestrial beasts were lying on the ground comfortably. of rolling.
When Char came here, the dwarves had already occupied the positions of several checkpoints in this old camp. Seeing Char's arrival, many dwarves had a vigilant look on their faces - that look is definitely not to be said. It's friendly, even slightly hostile.
"I'm the leader of Denzel City, let the leader of your team come to see me." Xia stood at the gate of the camp and didn't go in.
He probably understood what Char Ya said, and soon, the dwarf leader of the team came to Char Ya.
The dwarf standing in front of Xia Ya is only taller than Xia Ya's navel at most, but this dwarf wears a tall iron helmet, which barely reaches the position of Xia Ya's chest. However, those short legs were also wearing a pair of long leather boots. It seemed that the boots of the leather boots were almost aligned with the base of their thighs, which was a bit ridiculous.
Xiaya noticed that although the dwarf was short, it was extremely thick! Its skin was as dry and thick as old tree bark, and it was wrinkled, but the muscles on its chest and arms were high and well-defined - ridiculously, its beard was also the longest of the dwarves. It was dragged to the tip of his toes, and the long beard was also braided with two very beautiful round knots, and more than a dozen braids were scattered and erected.
These dwarves looked black and dirty, but they didn't expect to be so careful about their beards.
"My name is Rock, and I was entrusted by the almighty and great King Greybeard to come here to bring gifts to the great Lord Merlin."
The dwarf leader looked at Xi Ya, his voice was a little dry, and his tone was a bit arrogant - but these dwarves spoke in such a loud voice that it sounded like thunder, rumbling loudly.
rock
an odd name.
It seems that Char has heard a lot of legendary stories, and it seems that there are always some names called "Rock" or "Hammer" in the dwarves. Like common names like "Tom" and "Jack" in human names.
"I welcome you on behalf of Lord Merlin." Xiaya's voice was also a little arrogant - that's his temperament, since the dwarf's tone of voice is not polite, then there is no need for Xiaya to show any kindness: "But Merlin The adults can't see you now. So you can explain your intentions, and then you can explain anything to me."
"No no no..." The rock shook his head again and again: "I brought a precious gift from King Greybeard to Lord Merlin. I have to hand it over to me, but I can't let others receive it on my behalf."
Xia rolled her eyelids...
Want to meet Merlin? There's no way... Merlin shut himself in the backyard and hung a sign outside the door: Those who trespass will die.
Hmph, whoever has the guts to go in - I won't go in anyway.
Xia Ya frowned: "Mr. Merlin doesn't have time to see you now. If you don't want to hand it over, then just wait here."
After a pause, Xia Ya said, "Who do you think you are representing? The Greybeard King?"
"King Greybeard! He is the king of kings of the dwarves! The supreme majesty of the dwarves, the leader who is loved by all the dwarves... The bravest and most heroic dwarf hero..." The rock suddenly became excited as if it had been beaten with blood .
"Okay..." Xia waved his hand and looked at the spitting guy...
Well, it seems that Dodoro can be called to receive these guys. When the dwarf talked about the Greybeard King, he was full of horses, and he was a bit like the guy Dodoro. If they were together, they would have a common language.
Seeing that the words were not speculative, Xia Ya took people away. Before leaving, she still looked curiously at the camp - the two hundred carts were covered tightly, and I didn't know what treasures they were. .
Just as Xia Ya brought people back from the old camp, and was walking back, there were already a few cavalry galloping fast in the distance, and it was clearly seen from a distance that it was another team of scout cavalry under his command.
"Lord! Lord Xia! Emergency military situation!!!"
Hearing the call from a distance, Xiaya's expression immediately froze, but then these cavalrymen rushed in front of them, and they were on horseback, and they said loudly: "Sir! Another strange team is coming from the east... They, they... "
"What are you panicking about? What 'they are'!" Xia's face sank.
As a scout, one of the most essential qualities is not to panic. If you panic at every turn, how can you be a scout? !
But then, the words of this scout cavalry immediately explained the reason for his panic!
"Those guys... They came from the sky! More than a dozen big birds! They all rode on top and came from the east! It's less than thirty miles away from here..."
Ride a bird? people? !
Xia Ya's eyes widened immediately.
In her mind, Dora suddenly called out: "It's an elves! It's an elves!"