Chapter 45: The Breach of the Deeping Wall
Back at the battle of Helm's Deep, the valiant warriors, fighting to protect the people of Rohan, continue to fare very well against the Uruk-Hai. Despite the Uruk's efforts to get over the wall, they were being cut down by the Elves.
Max continued their competition since Dustin seemed to have dropped out. Max just about caught up with Legolas' first leading score. Max is standing on the wall between two ladders, hacking away at Uruk-hai as they come up…
"…Seventeen," Max declared, as he hacked each Uruk, "Eighteen! Nineteen!"
"Twenty!" Max went on, continuing to count each Uruk he slew, "Twenty one… Twenty two… "
While Max continued their competition… a battalion of Uruk-Hai started to advance up the causeway towards the gate in tortoise formation, using their broad shields to block off attacks, from above the gate. Trent then looked in their direction and immediately directed some of the Elf archers to aim at the Uruk-hai column.
"Causeway! Na fennas!" Trent cried his command, "causeway! Hado ribed! Hado!"
The archers on the wall shot, arrow after arrow, into the group. The Uruk-hai at the sides that were shot, fell down the causeway. But the column kept advancing…
pleasure that none of the Uruks were able to breach the fortress.
"Is this it?" said the king in a triumphant, yet cocky manner, "…is this all you can conjure Saruman?"
But it seemed that Anton wouldn't enjoy his triumph for much longer… for Zeltrax had one more ace in the hole…
A small band of the Uruk-Hai went to the drain at the base of the Deeping wall and put into place… two of Zeltrax's metallic vessels into the drain, placing one on top of the other. After placing the devices, the rest opened up a path…
…And an Uruk-hai carrying a torch started to run towards the drain. The Uruks were cheering their comrade on…
Trent spots the Uruk as well and had the same feeling that the torch-carrying Uruk must be stopped.
"Dustin!" Trent yelled.
"Togo hon dad, Dustin! (Bring him down, Dustin!)" Trent yelled frantically.
Dustin immediately aimed over the wall and shot the Uruk-hai in the shoulder but the latter kept going on towards the culvert.
"Dago hon! Dago hon! (Kill him! Kill him!)" Trent kept yelling for Dustin to stop the Uruk from running towards the drain…
Dustin shoots another arrow into his other shoulder.
which caused the injured torch-carrying Uruk to stumble and fall… but it was able to reach the drain…
Everyone gasped….
KAAABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM!
The drain exploded! The explosion took out a large portion of the Deeping Wall, which immediately caught Anton's attention as he and his men looked at the exploding wall from the top of the battlements, sending rock, debris, and bodies flying through the air…
The explosion was even heard from inside the Glittering caves, that made the women and children gasp with fright. Tori tightened her grip on the sword she had, constantly on alert for any Uruk that may breach the fortress and reach the caves…
The force of the explosion also threw back Trent. Trent landed on the ground, knocked out.
And it seemed that Anton got the message clear as well as he stared on in shock, gaping at the explosion that just took place at the Deeping wall. A group of Uruk-hai began streaming in past the Deeping Walls…
Then…
A rupture slowly plowed through the Uruk-Hai at the causeway as they threw off their shields… and revealed a battering ram, which they immediately started ramming into the gate.
"Brace the Gate!" Anton yelled…
His soldiers rushed to brace the gates with their bodies. The next time the battering ram smashed into the gate… the wood groaned and the soldiers were bounced off, but they quickly braced themselves against the gate once more. The soldiers and children assisted their fellow soldiers at the battlements above the gate, as they threw their spears and small rocks, trying to fend off the Uruk-Hai that continued to batter down the gate.
"Hold them!" Anton ordered encouragingly, "stand firm!"
At the breached Deeping wall as the Uruks endlessly streamed through, Trent slowly recovered as he lifted his head and got to his feet. Max immediately saw the Uruk-hai charging in with Trent in their path.
"Trent, arg!" Max cried out as he jumped down from the wall… and landed on the Uruk-hai army, narrowly avoiding the spears that they held in the air.
"Max!" Trent cried out in unison.
Max stood up and began to fend off the Uruk-Hai with his axe.
"Hado i philinn (Hurl the arrows!)!" Trent commanded to the Elves that were behind him.
The arrows launched by the Elves take out the first group of Uruk-hai that came through the hole in the wall.
Herio! (Charge!)," Trent ordered…
And he and the Elves charged toward the incoming Uruk army, as they charged towards them, with their spears bearing in front, pointing out at the Elves. Trent parried the spears with his sword, and many of the Elves unwittingly ran into the spears, killing themselves instantly.
Dustin, up on the wall, quickly grabbed a discarded shield and running to the stairs he dropped and slid the shield on the ground and jumped on…
And used the shield to slide down the stairs, while standing and shooting arrow after arrow… into the incoming horde. When he reached the bottom of the stairs…
He kicked up the shield, letting it stab into one of the Uruks. The shield penetrated the creature's armor and it doubled over and fell. Dustin then used an arrow to stab another Uruk in the neck.
Now that the wall was breached, the valiant warriors of men and elves faced two dilemmas…
The Uruks that were trying to break through the gate… and the Uruks that were coming through the wall that they destroyed.