"Now, we have to follow this reverse direction and follow the Misty Mountains to the southwest."

"From here, it will take at least forty days! If we are lucky enough, the pass of Rohan may still be open to us."

If Rohan was not attacked by the powerful orcs who were close to Aisinge...

Thinking of this, after looking at the endless mountains under his feet, Gandalf could only sigh helplessly in his heart.

Fortunately, he is not as good as he looks on the surface, he is really not a gray-bearded old man, but under his old man's skin, he is actually a powerful Maiya who is as strong as the most powerful warrior of humanity! So, he is not worried that long-term traversing mountains and rivers will kill him?

They set out from Rivendell until now and walked for eighteen days. Gandalf led his little Hobbits and other team members to finally arrive at the peak of this mountain range covered with strange white rocks.

At this time, Gandalf was sitting alone on a huge rock, silently smoking his own dry tobacco. At his feet, Sam, the somewhat fat hobbit housekeeper, was working hard to cook for everyone.

The preceptor Frodo sat with Aragon, who was also an old smoker, and looked at the slightly flat grass not far away, Boromire, who was practicing short sword fighting skills with Piping and Meli.

The dwarf tank Jinli, who never used shields, ran to a bush, tugged at some branches while muttering something. He seemed to be... shaking Gandalf's face?

Finally, it was the heretic hunter of Silfan, Sirvan, who came from the dark forest. Since this guy did not take his baby out, he was ordered by the regiment commander Gandalf to run to the near commanding heights to stand guard and wait...

“…”

Gandalf didn't care about the dwarf Jinli who was still muttering beside him. He smoked his cigarette one by one, while half-squinted his eyes and looked at the steep mountains in the distance that seemed to never end.

The continuous mountain range at their feet is the foggy mountain range that almost runs across half of the Middle Earth. It starts from the Gundaba Mountains where the half-orcs of the Gundaba orcs gather in the north and ends at Masidras Peak and Medras in the south. When we arrived here, it was near the valley at the western pass of the Rohanate Kingdom, stretching up and down for about 1,400 kilometers.

It is said that the Mist Mountains was originally a mountain range created by the demon king Mogoth in or before the Twin Tree Age. Its earliest function was to prevent the hunting god Eromi from freely traveling between the east and west of Middle-earth. At the beginning, its actual height was much higher than what we see now in the Third Age!

But even at this time, most of the time, the peaks that towered into the clouds still accumulated thick snow over the years, and the temperature was scary!

If someone has to think about crossing the foggy mountains, there are usually only a few roads to choose:

The first one was the highest pass that had been used for countless years! This was the Imrathue established by the god of hunting Euromy in the north of the mountain range in ancient times, which was specially provided for ancient elves to pass through the misty mountain range.

However, this pass is too far from Gandalf and the others' scheduled route...

Moreover, decades ago, when the dragon slaying team members of Gandalf, Bilbo Baggins and thirteen dwarves, who were expeditioning Lone Mountain, passed through the highest pass inherited from ancient times, witnessed the huge, like a mountain, with its head high and its head straight into the clouds, and its body was just a mountain, with extremely powerful power, comparable to the terrifying power of a stone giant like a god in a fight, he swore that in his lifetime, he would never want to approach the highest pass specially prepared by the so-called hunting god for the elves!

In Gandalf's opinion, those ancient stone giants who can stomp half a town with one foot are much more terrifying than the so-called evil existences of Saruman or Sauron!

If we do not walk the high passes of ancient times, then the remaining roads will be the source of the Graton River and the rift between Mount Gundaba and Iredemislin.

However, these are still too far away, directly at the northernmost end of the Mist Mountains, and too close to the gathering place of the Gundaba half-orcs. Gandalf never thought of the need to detour north and then south, and cross most of the Middle Earth planet!

And the only safe route left is the valley at the Rohan Pass and the Red Corner Pass where they are now...

This route is relatively safe, not a raging area for the orcs in the Mist Mountains. Even large monsters like Shemale are rare. They are an ideal passage for their Lord of the Ring Expedition Team to successfully pass through the Mist Mountains.

Of course, there are also shortcomings here. Its only disadvantage is that the journey is too long and too long...

This is also the reason why Gandalf just mentioned that he had to walk for forty days in this stretch of mountain area! After all, the saying of running to the mountain to death is not a joke, let alone a person walking with two legs!

Even in modern times, the tunnels on Earth that can be easily crossed in a few minutes, if it were ordinary people hiking to climb over the mountains without roads, it would definitely not be able to cross them without ten days or half a month!

"If anyone is willing to ask for my opinion... I will definitely say: We are actually walking a wronged path now?"

While everyone was busy resting and adjusting their state, a honest voice complained again.

Actually, not long after leaving Rivendell, Jin Li actually suggested to Gandalf several times. He hoped to go directly to the underground passage dug out by their dwarves - the Moria Mine!

He believed that as long as they were willing to go to the Moria mine, they would not only be warmly welcomed by his cob Bahrain, but also greatly shortened their itinerary! Perhaps, it only takes them three or two days to easily pass through the Mist Mountains and reach the other side of the eastern part of Mist Mountain?

Instead of just like now, a group of people foolishly crossing mountains and rivers, it will take at least more than a month to walk!

"Gandalff! Maybe, can we really go to the Moria pit?"

"You may not know that my coffin, Bahrain is very hospitable! In fact, all of our dwarves are very hospitable! He will welcome us warmly by then! There we will not only get a big glass of delicious ale, a hot broth, but also a large chunk of stew!"

"Believe me, we can even have a good rest in the mine at that time, and then spend another two or three days rushing to easily cross the entire Mist Mountains and reach the other side of the Damorea mine?"

Looking at the Mist Mountains that were about to reach the end and the damn Red Horn Pass, Jin Li walked to Gandalf again, looking at the old wizard who was smoking a pipe with an unhappy look on his face.

Their dwarves are naturally short-legged and are not very good at rushing the road. If the elves and humans take a step, their dwarves often need to take at least three or four steps?

Perhaps it is precisely because of this that the dwarves evolved a magical talent for mountain opening. No matter how tall or hard the mountains are, they can always easily dig underground passages or cities in the abdomen of the mountain to achieve the purpose of living or convenient transportation? Then, when others laugh at their dwarves with short legs, they can laugh at those long legs and fools?

Now, in Jin Li's eyes, this gray-robed wizard Gandalf is obviously the kind of old guy who has long legs and stupidity, and insists on crossing mountains and rivers to cause trouble!

"No! Jinli, unless we have no choice, I will never go to the Moria mine..."

Gandalf remembered that before he had fallen in with Saruman, in the other party's Sanktala, he had seen the documents that the other party told him, which clearly recorded: Because the dwarf of Moria was too greedy and digging too deep, he had awakened the ancient evil sleeping in the dark abyss - the Flame Demon!

It is an ancient existence that is even more terrifying than the orcs in the Misty Mountain. Its threat is definitely comparable to Smaug at the time?

So, unless they really have no other way to choose, he really doesn't want to go to the Moria mine under the Mist Mountains.

Or, unless they were at Rivendell, they could successfully fool the little girl who was both powerful and good at flame spells into their ring guarding expedition? If that were the case, Gandalf would definitely take the lead in the Moria Mine without saying a word!

But... since Gandalf is unconsciously worried about the little girl who likes to be naughty, he doesn't know what the other party is doing now. Calculate the time, it's almost ten days, right?

At that time, it seemed that they left Rivendell on the same day as them?

However, their route is west, and they are all cavalry. It is certain that their expedition team will be much faster when they are walking along the road! Moreover, if they are walking along the main road, it will be almost enough for them to reach any gathering place or city of humans in the western plains for such a long time, right?

Gandalf, who was beyond the reach, could only hope that the other party would keep his promises and would not cause too much trouble in Middle-earth world...

"Be careful, everyone! There is a situation!"

Suddenly, Legras, who had been keeping watch since the beginning, suddenly shouted at the people who were resting or entertaining, and jumped onto a huge rock at the same time, staring at the strange black cloud in the distance.

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Ahem, keeping your promises or something, Little Anne will usually definitely do it.

But what Gandalf would never know is: if you want little Anne not to cause any trouble, it would be absolutely impossible!

At this time, when Gandalf and their ring guard team were trimming the top of a small mountain peak at the Red Horn Pass in the Mist Mountains, the little girl he remembered was leading a team of freshly released and the musketeers of the Alicia Kingdom who had not been trained for a few days to come to Stad Town.

That’s right! Now little Anne is planning to lead her freshly released musketeers to attack this town and make a due contribution to the expansion of the territory of the Kingdom of Alicia? That’s right! It’s just a contribution, not a playful thing!

And all the new weapons troops that were lined up were trained by the female soldiers of Bree Town! Their equipment was an 18mm caliber Minnie front-mounted rifle and a triangular spear that could be quickly installed at the waist! In addition, the two wings of the musketeers also had two squadrons of ordinary gun shield militias in Bree Town, each with fifty men as a square array of ordinary gun shield militias in Bree Town as cover.

In this way, the team of more than 300 people was lined up with sparse rows of formations, directly blocking outside this human fortress-shaped town.

Gandalf's concerns just now were actually far behind...

Because, on the third night of their expedition leaving Rivendale, before they even left the sheepish woodland, Anne and her dwarf goat knights had successfully occupied and inserted the red-bottomed gold-edged vulture flag belonging to the United Kingdom of Alicia directly into the low gate of Bree Town!

On the day of taking down Bree Town, there was no battle, and there were no casualties between the enemy and us.

Many residents of Bree Town still remember that when the Queen of Alicia, His Majesty of Alicia summoned the Angel of Doomsday, the originally tough Lord Ian Fried quickly admitted his defeat! Then he cried and begged to directly package the entire Bree Town and the surrounding territory at a fair price, and legally sold it to the Queen of the United Kingdom of Alicia who he didn't know where it appeared!

Then he packed up the gift bed, took some of the guards and servants, hurriedly left Bray Town that night, and went straight south...

Now, the residents of Bray Town inside and outside actually do not object to Bray, who ruled them in the United Kingdom of Alicia, but also had extraordinary support.

The main reason is that many of them witnessed the doomsday angel summoned by the queen with their own eyes. After seeing that miraculous existence, they thought that the other party was indeed the god-given monarchy, and they easily accepted the fact that their town of Bree had changed its lord!

Furthermore, because Queen Ofena of Alicia issued the first decree on the second day after occupying Bree Town: the tax rate of 35% originally stipulated by Lord Ian Fried in Bree Town was directly reduced to an outrageous five%!

From then on, whether it is agricultural or commercial activities, all of them only need to pay an extremely low income tax of 5%! This alone is enough to make the farmers in Bule Town and the surrounding territories grateful.

The day after occupying Bree, Anne took the more than 200 dwarves she hired, in Bree Town, with the help of her own part of her own shaping magic, and in just five days, she built a steel war workshop that was extremely large-scale using windmill wind power and steam boiler power!

In this war workshop, all the simple machine tools and smelting boilers that were found in the steam era, the production task was mainly carried out by skilled and skilled dwarves and some of the human craftsmen in Bret Town.

Then, what happened next made the people of this town of Bree feel a little dazzled...

The so-called United Kingdom of Alicia actually happened to be on the seventh day after they settled in Bree Town. When their first mass-produced Minnie flintlock rifles began to step down the production line, Queen Ofina issued the first recruitment notice?

Moreover, with super high salary, we recruited soldiers called musketeers?

What’s even more outrageous is that even if the recruitment is not a high-quality soldier like the Warrior Ranger, they have never touched weapons before, or the farmers and citizens who have been farming for half their lives, they want it?!

If the above are normal, then the most exaggerated thing is: the so-called musketeers' military pay is still a very high gold coin per month?! After joining the army, if you do not make mistakes within half a year, you will add one more? If you can comply with the orders throughout the year, you can add three more?

To the residents of Bree Town, this is simply a rhythm of money falling from the sky...

So, shortly after the recruitment document was posted, the Bree Town and the surrounding areas were in an instant!

The farmers abandoned their farmland and hoes, the merchants gave up their not-so-value goods, and even some young or old women in the later period began to squeeze the conscription office of the Kingdom of Alicia, allowing Anne and the newly appointed Queen Ofena to easily reorganize three musket-100 teams!

If it weren't for the limited production capacity of the War Workshop and the shortage of new gunpowder stocks, perhaps they could even have equipped more "Goddess' Wrath" musketeers?

What happened next is like the situation in Stad Town now:

In impatient, little Annie directly led a team of female musket soldiers of the "Goddess' Wrath" who had been trained for only ten days, as well as four square formations of ordinary male militiamen in Brei Town, and went south along the main road. She arrived here in just one day's march.

She plans to conquer cities and expand the territory of the United Kingdom of Alicia!

If everything goes well, it is very likely that by the time Gandalf and their Ring Expedition team disbanded, the entire northern kingdom of Arno would have no more things about Aragon, the Dendan chief, would it be?

"Mr. Witch! Our team is ready now. Please give an order!"

At this time, a young female officer wearing a strong suit, carrying an 18mm caliber Minnie rifle on her back, a rifle in the holster of the belt, and two short pistols and some ammunition packs were inserted, ran to Anne, put her hand on her chest and greeted a fist-clenched salute exclusively by the Kingdom of Alicia, and began to report loudly.

The female officer is named Renas. She was originally a down-and-out female ranger. She was determined to be the most powerful ranger or the first female general. She was never recognized by the traditional northern Dingdan ranger!

In the eyes of other rangers, going to the battlefield to kill enemies is not something women should have done?

So, when she was wandering around hunting monsters in the woods of the Northern Kingdom, she accidentally passed by Bree Town. Then, when she saw that the newly emerged king of the Alicia Kingdom was also a woman, she resolutely went to the recruitment office of the Alicia Kingdom to sign up and join the army as the first woman!

It was also the precedent that she dared to register as a woman and was able to pass it smoothly that directly led to the trend of women in the entire Bree Town joining the army.

Of course, it is unknown whether the other tomboys who dare to sign up are for money or for their ideals like Renas...
To be continued...