10. The Battle of Ironforge. Prepare for the Battle
The struggle in Stranglethorn Vale will last long.
Although the Blighters are coming in force, the Gurubashi Trolls have been living in this dense forest for thousands of years, and they also have their own advantages.
The troll city Zul'Gurub was a famous city during the Zandalari Empire. After the Great Sundering, it was carefully maintained and repaired by the trolls. This ancient city has always existed as a sacred city of priests.
The power of at least four beast Loa is shrouded here. Under the protection of the strange voodoo power given by those Loa, it is not that simple to break through this city.
Moreover, there is also the power of the evil god that has resurfaced in people's panic. In the history of the fantasy world, anyone who is named the evil god is not easy to deal with. Not to mention the soul-stealer Hakkar, who is in Zanda
The ancient evil spirit that has left a mark in the annals of troll history.
But frankly speaking, the world has not paid much attention to the war in Stranglethorn Valley. For a civilization that has begun to be in turmoil, preserving its own existence is much more important than paying attention to the evil beliefs of some barbarian people.
In the snowy mountains of Khaz Modan and the wilderness of the Desolate Lands, the undead crow people appear more and more frequently. This means that a terrible reality is happening bit by bit, and the undead are swallowing them up like whales.
After conquering the entire Kingdom of Stormwind, they only stopped for a short time before continuing their iron hooves forward.
The clouds of war are gathering little by little in the icy sky of Khaz Modan. Not only the Bronzebeard dwarves living in Ironforge feel the smell of gunpowder smoke, but also Quel'Thalas, who has never been involved in mainland affairs.
The high elves also reacted to this.
Just 2 days ago, reinforcements from the Human Empire once again entered the various defense lines of Ironforge, including an entire group of well-trained high elf rangers and accompanying mages. This was already the highest level of support from the empire in the past month.
The fourth army of the dwarves is here. It seems that the human emperor Lothar has finally reached an agreement with the kings.
They agreed to King Magni of Ironforge's request for help and deployed heavy troops in Khaz Modan to build this cold snowy mountain into a strategic "buffer zone" to prevent the undead from approaching the empire's borders.
The strange thing is that, facing the alliance between the Human Empire and the Dwarf Kingdom, Khaz Modan will become more troublesome every day. It is like a war beast equipped with fangs and armor. Every day it becomes more and more difficult.
Fierce, but separated by a mountain, the number of undead legions stationed outside Khaz Modan has not increased...
"Number is the absolute advantage of the undead. As long as Tyrion still has any sense, he will never give up this advantage."
On the gryphon soaring in the snowy sky, Danaus Trollbane, the commander of the Vanguard Army of the Human Empire, was wearing a snow-white cloak, mixed in with a group of Wildhammer gryphon knights, and passed by the undead in the distance.
At Khaz Modan's frontline base, he looked down with his telescope. The undead had built a large base in the plains of the snowy mountains. They had cleared the snow on the ground. From a distance, it looked like they were on a snowy slope.
There was an ugly black scar on my middle.
It was a huge castle built with stones, surrounded by strange ziggurats. Above those stone towers, green magic eyeballs were suspended. Would they change the direction of observation to ensure that no enemy could sneak up on them?
Approach the fort.
"There are at least 60,000 undead here!"
Kurdran, the best Wildhammer gryphon knight, touched the snowflakes on his beard and said with a gloomy look:
"The number of dead people is so large. Just the vanguard is comparable to half of our army. Just look at those walking corpses. Just one look at them will make you feel dizzy."
"On the surface it does look difficult to defeat, but that's just the appearance."
Danas fiddled with the magnification of the telescope. While he carefully observed the defense of the Undead Fortress, he encouraged his comrades:
"But the Kingdom of Stormwind has fought against them. A standard Dark Blade Legion has 70,000 people, but three-quarters of them are servants, skeletons or temporarily awakened zombies. For unarmed civilians, it may be very difficult.
Difficult to deal with, but for well-trained soldiers, the threat of these servant armies is much smaller. The most troublesome are the remaining quarter, those death knights, dark warlocks and some ghosts who occupy the command level.
A vampire or some other monster."
"Your Majesty Lothar has fought against them. Kurdran, they are not invincible. The destruction of the Stormwind Kingdom's army is not without gain. We have already seen their weaknesses."
"Pa"
The general threw the telescope in his backpack. He had memorized the terrain of the Fortress of the Undead. He pulled up the griffon's reins and said to the dwarf:
"The best way to deal with the undead is not to be reckless or to send yourself into an endless circle of dead people. The best way is to find their "head" and then chop it off. The lower-level undead who have lost their command layer will become chaotic.
, that’s our opportunity.”
A trace of killing intent flashed in the general's eyes:
"At that time, all it took was a fire and some oil to burn all these walking corpses."
"Fire and oil? Awesome!"
Kurdran's thick laughter echoed far away in the wind and snow:
"Then we are lucky. As far as I know, there are many of these two things in Ironforge."
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"You are welcome to come to Ironforge at this critical time. On behalf of the Bronzebeard royal family and all the dwarves of Ironforge, I would like to express my most sincere gratitude to you for coming."
In the throne room of Ironforge, King Magni Bronzebeard was sitting on a high chair specially made for dwarves, which could barely ensure that he and other attendees were at eye level. The table in front of him was filled with
The dwarves' delicious food and wine were a grand welcome banquet, and the Bronzebeard King in gorgeous robes also held an exquisite glass in his hand.
Logically speaking, at a time when the country is under threat, this kind of welcoming banquet should be simple, but the character of the dwarves is so... "enthusiastic", not to mention that King Bronzebeard also wants to take this opportunity to inspire
In response to the recent heavy atmosphere in the city of Ironforge, every district in this huge underground city has an open banquet today.
It has to be said that these noisy short people are very talented at hosting banquets, and now the whole city has become a sea of carnival.
Of course, for kings and commanders, banquets may be more about communication than pure fun.
"The dwarves have always been the most loyal allies of the Human Empire. We will not refuse when you are in need."
General Danas took a very restrained sip of the wine in his hand and said to the dwarf king:
"Your Majesty Magni, you and I have participated in the Orc War together. We are comrades fighting side by side, so let's not waste time on red tape and let's talk about the current situation... Regarding those undead, the dwarves are all
How much do you know?"
"Yes, Your Majesty the King, this is also an issue of great concern to Quel'Thalas."
The Silvermoon Councilor came on behalf of Quel'Thalas. Archmage Rommath put down the wine glass in his hand very gracefully. His calm and wise eyes stared at King Magni. He said softly:
"When I left Quel'Thalas, His Highness the Sun King and Prince Kael'thas repeatedly told me to collect enough information about those undead...The news of the fall of the Kingdom of Stormwind is really shocking.
We have to face up to this new threat emerging from southern Xinjiang."
"All right."
King Magni sighed. He put down the gold wine cup inlaid with gems that was very dwarf-style. He stroked his beautiful orange beard and said to the commanders and envoys sitting in front of him:
"We do know more than humans. The source of these messages is a person who I cannot disclose, but I can guarantee that these messages are true... In fact, long before the undead invaded the Kingdom of Stormwind, they had
There are destructive actions that we don't know about under the surface of Azeroth. Shadowforge City and Blackstone Tower, these places that have been ignored by us, fell earlier than the Kingdom of Stormwind."
"As far as I know so far, the Thaurissan royal family in Shadowforge City has been overthrown. Although on the surface this is an internal rebellion, and the Thorium Brotherhood betrayed the rule of Shadowforge City, in fact, this matter
The black hand behind this is the undead, to be precise, it's Tyrion. Blade of Dawn, my daughter...ahem, I mean, my spy saw him with his own eyes on the day Shadowforge City fell.
Figure."
"Well, that's bad news."
General Danas frowned: "This means that there will be hundreds of thousands of black iron dwarves in the undead army? This is enough for them to form at least 7 more legions..."
"No, no no no!"
King Magni shook his head, picked up the wine glass, took a sip of wine, and said to Danas and others:
"My spies told me that the undead did not kill those Dark Iron Dwarves, but only killed all their soldiers, so the number of Dark Iron Dwarves who joined the undead side would not exceed 50,000. Ironforge spies have been in Shadowforge City
Activities, the place is now filled with demons. The nobles of the Black Iron clan have been thrown into the mines, while the civilians have been gathered and sent to work in the factories... It is said that they are forging armor and weapons for the undead, and more
It’s unbelievable that the undead still pay them.”
"Wait, they did this in Shadowforge City too?"
General Danas' eyes widened. He looked at the other people who were confused, pondered for a moment and then explained:
"There is some news circulating within the empire. You may not be aware of it. The civilians of the Kingdom of Stormwind were not all evacuated during the disaster of the kingdom's fall. There are still 120,000 to 140,000 people in the entire kingdom stranded on the original land, but with the Dark Furnace
Like the Dark Iron Dwarves in the city, the undead did not kill them, but sent them back to their original land, letting human traitors who served the undead forces manage them... Frankly speaking, this news made the nobles within the empire very worried.
.”
"Why?"
Archmage Rommath asked curiously:
"Why are the nobles worried? Isn't it a good thing that the people escaped from the fate of massacre?"
"Yes, the common people escaped the fate of being killed, but the problem is that in those new systems run by traitors... there are no nobles, no kings, and nothing we know well, according to our spies.
They just said a few words. The current administrative system there is a weird parliamentary system. They promote the concept of equality for everyone. Some traitors even deceive the common people and say that they will... send the kings to the gallows, and then the people themselves will
Rule yourself."
General Danas spread his hands helplessly:
"This kind of thinking is very dangerous, and there are already a few civilians who are willing to accept the management of that weird new system. This is at least dangerous in the eyes of the nobles. Therefore, in the past few months, they felt that something was wrong and "helped"
We have a lot of trouble."
"It's unimaginable."
Even though the Elf Archmage has lived for more than 2,000 years, he has never heard of such novel rumors in his extraordinary knowledge, but after a moment, he sneered at it:
"Split, provoke, and imprison. There is no doubt that the leader of the undead is a smart man, but his purpose of taking in these living people is probably not that simple."
The Archmage spoke eloquently to the others:
"The birth and growth of life is a natural law, and the undead appear against this law. During the war, Tyrion can easily make his group stronger, but the war will always end. After peace comes
, how should the undead ensure their continuation? Captivity, keep enough living people in captivity, and use some evil method to accelerate their death... This will allow the undead to have their own inheritance."
"Well, you are right, Archmage."
King Magni nodded:
"My royal advisor told me so, but my spies disagreed with this view. Moira insisted that the undead did not just keep the Dark Iron dwarves in captivity, but had made some deals with them that we didn't know about. She told
I said that her followers heard some conversations between Tyrion and the Death Lords in Shadowforge City, and the Darkblade King kept saying that he wanted to establish a new order."
The dwarf kingdom shook its head:
"I know she was reminding me, but my baby was definitely scared."
"Wait, Moira, a girl? She's your spy?"
General Danas asked curiously, and this question made the leaked King Magni quickly become angry. He still put the wine glass in his hand on the table and stared at Danas angrily. After a moment, he again
Become crestfallen:
"Okay, Moira is my rebellious daughter, and she is also the queen of Thaurissan... This is my family matter, don't be too curious, okay?"
"Okay, okay."
General Danas shrugged. He picked up a document in his hand, glanced at it for a few times, then raised his head and asked:
"Last question, regarding the underground railway tunnel between Ironforge and Stormwind City, I heard that it is almost completed, but now Stormwind City is occupied by the undead, so what are you going to do with that tunnel?"
"The undead will crawl down that tunnel and strangle us all, so what else can we do?"
Bronzebeard threw a chicken wing into his mouth, and the bone and meat made a crunching sound. He said vaguely:
