In front of Gushan Mountain.
On the huge hillside to the east, the heavily armored army of the Iron Hills dwarves was ready to go.
At the foot of the hillside, the army of Dark Forest elves were neatly arranged and ready.
In front of the motley army militia in River Valley Town.
Ironfoot Dain was in the middle of a quarrel with Thranduil.
"Let the dwarfs do it."
Thranduil looked cold as he looked at the pig-mounted Iron Hills Dwarf Lord on the small slope in front and said coldly: "Let's see how far they can go!"
"Do you think I care about the threat of you, a dead dog?"
"You little princess with pointy ears."
Dain Ironfoot sneered and scolded him, then turned around and left as soon as he pulled the reins on his hand.
In front of the phalanx of the militiamen belonging to River Valley Town.
Morgan stared at the figure turning away not far away, and launched his special skill: "Charge!"
The next second.
Morgan rushed towards the pig-riding figure not far away like lightning.
No one around could react at all.
Only Gandalf, who was standing closest to the small slope, felt a figure rushing past him.
Then, he saw Morgan leaping high and raising his sword to slash Ironfoot Dyne, who was just about to turn around while riding the pig.
As the lord of the Iron Hills, Dine Ironfoot is quite powerful.
The moment Morgan rushed towards him, leaped into the air and raised his sword, he actually felt a sense of danger.
It's just that the speed of the attacking enemy is too fierce and too fast.
Riding on the war pig, Ironfooted Dain sensed the great danger and was unable to react at all for a moment.
He had no choice but to rely on his many years of combat experience and tried his best to raise the warhammer in his hand and hastily block it by his side.
"boom!"
The sound of gold and iron colliding exploded, and sparks flew everywhere.
Morgan took advantage of the special charge and jumped up, raising his sword with both hands and slashing down suddenly.
This sword is so powerful,
Not only was the steel warhammer in Ironfoot Dyne's hand split instantly, it flew out of his hand.
Even his entire body and the war pig under his crotch were easily knocked to the ground by the huge force.
Even though he was injured instantly, Ironfoot Dyne reacted quickly. He realized that the attacker was very powerful and had lost his weapon. There was no chance of winning in a head-on fight. He immediately rolled to the side after falling to the ground.
As long as you keep the distance and buy time, your own army can crush this despicable sneak attacker into pieces.
Ironfoot Dyne reacts extremely quickly.
But Morgan is faster.
From the very beginning when he was thinking about this plan, he realized that he had to move fast, so fast that no one could react before he could hold Dyne Ironfoot in his hands so that the dwarves would not dare to act rashly.
Otherwise, those grumpy and unreasonable dwarves will really swamp themselves with an army.
The moment Dyne Ironfoot and his sturdy war pig fell to the ground, the Lord of the Iron Hills immediately rolled aside.
Morgan was faster and strode forward to catch up. The elf sword with a sharp cold light in his hand suddenly stretched out and pressed against the side of Ironfoot Dane's neck, stopping him.
Feeling the cold stinging sensation from the sword on his neck, Dine Ironfoot immediately did not dare to move.
At this moment, everyone around and even the entire Gushan had just reacted.
"what happened?"
"Why did Morgan suddenly attack Dyne Ironfoot?"
"Does he think the conflict between the dwarves and the allied forces of elves and humans is not enough?"
"Are you forcing them to go to war?"
"Ironfoot Dyne was defeated by Morgan so quickly?"
"The Lord of the Iron Hills was kidnapped?"
"What exactly is going on?"
"..."
Looking at the hillside, Morgan held a long sword and placed it on the neck of Ironfoot Lord Din of the Iron Hills.
Everyone was stunned for a moment.
Then, there were everyone's exclamations, shouts, and curses, as well as a huge commotion from the dark army of dwarves rising up the slope behind them.
Gandalf, who was nearest, reacted the fastest. He looked at Morgan and immediately shouted: "Morgan, don't mess around!"
Not far behind him, the dragon-slaying warrior Bard's eyes immediately lit up when he saw this scene.
Although he didn't know what Morgan wanted to do.
But seeing Morgan take down the dwarf lord who was extremely arrogant just now at such a speed, and seeing the opponent deflated, he felt very happy.
Bilbo on the side looked at this scene and immediately remembered that Morgan asked Gandalf not long ago about the strength of the dwarf lord of the Iron Hills, Thorin's cousin.
He suddenly realized that it was Morgan who wanted to attack the other party.
Behind Bilbo, a group of Riverdale Town militiamen looked at the scene in front of them, and their hearts were even more shocked.
The pig-riding dwarf lord just now was so powerful and arrogant, but he was still defeated and captured by his own dragon-slaying warrior, Mr. Morgan.
All the militiamen who witnessed this scene all respected Morgan even more.
Watching Morgan holding the Lord of Iron Hills hostage with a long sword on the hillside.
Everyone has different thoughts.
But the happiest one is undoubtedly the Elf King.
Thranduil, who was riding on a huge antlered deer, looked at the embarrassment of the extremely arrogant and domineering Iron-footed Dyne being held hostage by Morgan, and a smile immediately appeared on his face.
He even wanted to laugh out loud.
But the etiquette education deep in his bones would never make the Elf King rude.
At this moment, Thranduil didn't have a very good impression of Morgan.
The human and elven coalition had different thoughts on Morgan's actions.
But for the dwarves, it was extremely angry.
Especially Thorin Oakenshield, who was watching this scene from a distance on the tall city wall of Gushan a little further away, was the most furious.
He had just brought in reinforcements and hoped that his cousin Tiezu Daiyin would give those damn elves and the humans who took advantage of the situation a hard lesson.
As a result, my cousin was kidnapped by Morgan before the war even started?
I am not dazzled!
This is no joke either!
Damn Morgan!
Damn Morgan!
If he had known better, he shouldn't have let those humans join the team in the first place.
It's all that pesky wizard Gandalf's fault.
The hobbit who is a despicable thief, the nasty wizard, and the hateful damned humans!
They are in the same group!
definitely is!
Thorin Oakenshield looked at Morgan in the distance and gritted his teeth.
Although the other dwarves on the city wall were far less angry than Thorin Oakenshield.
But his face definitely looks good.
In addition, the next thing they thought of was Morgan's power.
Dain's reputation among the dwarves is not small.
Being able to quickly hijack the Iron-footed Dyne of Iron Hills, even in a sneak attack, Morgan's strength is evident.
You know when they first set off from the Shire with Morgan.
Although Morgan's archery skills were excellent, his swordsmanship was only average.
But now it seems.
Morgan's swordsmanship has improved more than a little.
That's a huge improvement.
Thinking again that Morgan is the best at archery.
The dwarves were silent.
And above the hillside, among the black army of Iron Hills dwarves.
In addition to a lot of commotion at the beginning, the commotion was quickly calmed down by the dwarf leader yelling orders from the giant bighorn sheep chariot in front.
The Iron Hills dwarf army, which should have reacted most violently, was actually the quietest party.
While everyone was really surprised, they were also shocked by the discipline of the dwarf army.
on the hill.
Morgan ignored the commotion and noise around him, calmly looked at the Lord of Iron Hills in front of him and said, "Stand up!"
Iron-footed Dain glanced sideways at the Senhan sword beside his neck, then looked at the tall sneak attacker in front of him, and immediately said with great anger on his face: "You despicable sneak attacker..."
"Shut up!"
Morgan interrupted rudely, his face suddenly turned cold and he shouted: "Stand up!"
Looking at the cold eyes of the humans in front of him, Iron-footed Dain snorted coldly and had to stand up slowly.
Just in the process of getting up.
Iron-footed Dyne's small movements of quietly grabbing the sand and gravel on the ground were a little rough.
The sword in Morgan's hand immediately tightened, and he sneered: "Stop your little moves, my patience is very limited, Lord."
Iron-footed Dain was stunned for a moment, then immediately let go of the sand and stones in his hands, raised his hands and said, "Okay, okay."
"I was careless today and fell into your hands."
"Boy, what's your name?"
Dine Ironfoot raised his hands, allowing Morgan to better hold him hostage, and asked.
Morgan quickly took out the prepared rope from his body and tied Ironfoot Dyne's hands tightly behind his back, then pushed him forward and casually replied: "You can call me Morgan."
"Let's go, Lord!"
Morgan said as he used his long sword to drive Ironfooted Dyne towards the front of the human militia formation in River Valley Town.
"Morgan, I have to say you are very brave."
"Seeing as you don't want to kill me, do you know that you are not afraid that I will lead an army to kill all these rabble?"
Dine Ironfoot's calmness was far beyond ordinary people. He looked at the Riverdale Town militiamen in front of him who were holding harpoons and hoes and wearing all kinds of messy thick winter clothes. He turned to look at Morgan and said casually.
"Lord, you have to say this to the person in front of you, not me."
Morgan said as he pushed Dine Ironfoot to stagger and stood right in front of Badma.
Bud apparently also heard the conversation between Ironfoot Dyne and Morgan just now.
He turned over and dismounted, looked closely at Iron-footed Dain and said fiercely: "Before that, I will definitely kill you first!"
"Morgan, you are so impulsive."
At this time, Gandalf came over and said.
Morgan stepped forward and controlled Dyne Ironfoot, turned to look at Gandalf who was approaching and smiled: "Gandalf, it's because I believe what you said."
"That's why I chose to directly control this Lord."
"Aren't you always worried that the dwarves will have a war with the elves?"
"Probably not now."
Morgan looked at Gandalf and smiled, he would not think he was impulsive.
Violence may not be the best solution to the problem.
But it must be the fastest way to solve the problem.
Like now.
Gandalf was not a pedantic man either.
In fact, he saw Morgan tying up Dyne Ironfoot's hands.
I immediately thought of the possibility that Morgan wanted to control Dyne Ironfoot to prevent a war between the dwarves and the elves.
Thinking back to not long ago, Morgan suddenly asked him about the strength of Iron-footed Dyne.
This made Gandalf understand quickly.
The two words he just said about Morgan's impulsiveness were just polite words meant for Dyne Iron-footed.
After all, the opponent is the dwarf lord of Iron Hills.
Even if the other party is now under control, some face should be left for the other party.
This is also the reason why Gandalf can make friends all over Middle-earth.
Dine Ironfoot saw Gandalf approaching, and immediately said in a deep voice: "Gandalf, have you already decided how to face my anger in the future?"
He could finally see that the powerful human being holding him hostage must have a close relationship with Gandalf.
Perhaps, maybe Gandalf was with this human boy named Morgan.
Seeing the angry look on Dine Ironfoot's face, Gandalf immediately said: "Lord Dine, you have misunderstood."
"Morgan may have meant to offend, but it was definitely not for anything else. It was because a coalition of Orcs was coming towards Lonely Mountain."
"Dwarves, elves, and humans should not have a war at this time."
"Orcs are our greatest enemies."
Gandalf said earnestly.
Iron-footed Dain still looked unhappy, but now that he was caught, he felt calmer.
He looked up at Gandalf and asked coldly: "So Gandalf, tell me, where are the orc armies you mentioned now?"
Gandalf was stunned when he heard the similar words from Dyne Ironfoot to Cernandil before.
He didn't know the general movements of the orc army. This was indeed a very important issue.
But he had no choice. He really didn't know, so he could only wait.
"I don't know where the orcs are now, but I'm sure they are on their way to the Lonely Mountain."
Gandalf shook his head and continued: "Please, Lord Dine, believe me."
Dain Ironfoot looked at Gandalf who couldn't give an answer and groaned.
Morgan was unhappy with the dwarf in front of him. He immediately put his sword on the Iron Hills Lord's shoulder and said coldly: "Do you still have a chance to choose now?"
At this time, two heavily armed Iron Hills dwarves rode down the hillside on giant horned goats and stopped not far in front of everyone.
Morgan raised his sword and patted the Lord of Iron Hills on the shoulder.
Ironfooted Dain snorted coldly, then looked at the two dwarf leaders in front and shouted loudly: "Wait!"
The two goat-riding dwarves immediately bowed their heads and saluted Iron-footed Dain, and then quickly rushed up the hillside on their giant-horned goats.
"Morgan, perhaps this is the best time to ask for payment from Thorin."
At this time, a voice came.
Everyone turned their heads and saw Thranduil slowly walking over from the elven formation behind them.
Hearing the Elf King's words, Morgan frowned slightly and before he could speak, Gandalf immediately stopped him and said: "The Orcs Alliance is coming towards the Lonely Mountain."
"What we need at this time is to deal with the orcs together, not to start a war with the dwarves."
Thranduil shook his head and continued: "Mithrandil, even if I believe what you said."
"In fact, no one knows when those orcs you mentioned will arrive at Lonely Mountain, right?"
"Even you don't know, right?"
Seeing Thranduil walking towards him, Ironfooted Dain couldn't help it immediately and said immediately: "The unworthy territorial spirit..."
"If the human boy hadn't done something bad, I would have taught you a lesson right now."
"Huh, war can't be won by just talking."
Thranduil sneered and continued: "At least I won't be captured easily."
As soon as the words fell, Iron-footed Dain was so angry that he glared and was about to fight back.
at this time.
"Rumble..."
"Rumble..."
An earthquake-like rumbling sound immediately came from a distance.
