"Dennis L. McKiernan - Hell's Crucible 2 - Into the Fire" - читать интересную книгу автора (McKiernan Dennis L)

A Horde was still roaming along the eastern boundaries of Darda
Erynian, and to avoid this Swarm, Tip, Beau, Phais, and Loric decided
to push on for Aven by going north through Darda Erynian. On the day
the four prepared to set out, a group of Rivermen came to the fortress
and asked for sanctuary. Neither Tip nor Rynna liked the look of these
men, for something just didn't seem right. But Tip had to go on his
mission to deliver the coin, and Rynna had to stay behind to captain the
Warrows, and so the lovers parted.
 Tip, Beau, Loric, and Phais eventually came to Bircehyll, the
Dylvana strongholt in Darda Erynian. While the rested, word came via
the Groaning Stones and the fox-riding Pysks that Caer Lindor had
fallen and all Warrows had been killed in the fight. This news devastated
Tip.
To gain revenge and slay Foul Folk, Tip and Beau pledged
themselves to Coron Ruar, leader of the Dylvana: they would go with
Ruar's army to help lift the siege of Mineholt North, a Dwarvenholt in
the Rimmen Mountains in Riamon.
With Tip roving as a scout, and Beau riding as a healer, they traveled
with a thousand Dylvana Elves up through Darda Erynian, where they
rendezvoused with a force of Baeron.
At Rimmen Gape the Allies defeated a segment of Spawn and then
continued on their mission to lift the Foul Folk's siege of the
Dwarvenholt.
As they neared Mineholt North, they were challenged by a force of
men from the town of Dael. Among this band was Bekki, a Dwarf of
Mineholt North. Led by Prince Loden, this company was also bent on
lifting the siege of the mineholt.
Coron Ruar called a strategy meeting, and many plans were
proposed, but all were met with objections. Finally, based on a skirmish
with a squad of Rupt, Tipperton devised a plan they all accepted!
Bekki chose Tip as the emissary to go with him, and they entered the
mineholt through the secret entrance and proceeded through corridors
and passages and crossed above deeps to reach distant Dwarven
chambers, where they found DelfLord Borl, Bekki's father, in his throne
room.
Tip explained his plan.
Two days later the Dylvana, Baeron, and Daelsmen rode to the vale
of the mineholt and arrayed themselves before the Horde. The Horde
jeered, for they outnumbered the Allies five to one.
That night Tip and a battalion of Dwarves, camouflaged in grey to
match the stone, slipped through the side postern and took places
against the flank of the mountain at the rear of the Horde.
As dawn stood barely below the lip of the world, the Allies in front
drew the Horde forward to face them, and from the rear the
camouflaged Dwarves slipped down and hurled clay vessels of a
flammable liquid to crash into and upon the Horde's supply wagons, with
vessels of smoldering firecoke following, and the wagons were set afire.
Elements of the Horde, including all six monstrous Trolls, turned against
the Dwarves. Dwarves cast flammable liquid upon three of the Trolls,
but managed to set only one afire. The Allies to the fore attacked to