Chapter 1067 The doubts of the Shadow Song siblings
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The final general attack was personally launched by Marshal Gavin Ladd. After Gavin Ladd left Watchfort with his direct troops, only some logistics personnel and unimportant fringe figures were left in the huge castle, eagerly awaiting the final outcome.
Among these fringe characters, they include the Night Elf Observation Group who came all the way from the continent of Kalimdor.
Although the Burning Legion is the common enemy of Azeroth... and even the entire universe, they have landed in the Eastern Kingdom after all, and they should be "received" by their local hosts first.
Before the Night Republic reorganized its political system, except for the Second Quicksand War, where the two sides briefly cooperated, the night elves led by Tyrande had almost no contact with the countries in the Eastern Continent.
It is impossible for a group as large as the night elves to complete a policy U-turn in just a few years. The people's thinking inertia formed over tens of thousands of years is not so easy to reverse.
After Malfurion became the Speaker, he advocated opening up the country, but this will still require an adaptation process, both for the night elves themselves and for other races in Azeroth.
The night elves do dominate Kalimdor, but their influence cannot spread across the ocean to the Eastern Kingdoms.
The arrival of the Shadowsong siblings was politely welcomed by the top leaders of the coalition, headed by Gavin Ladd, but that was all.
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Because they had almost no contact with each other before, Gavinrad allowed Jarod and Maiev to watch the war at close range, because the high elves vouched for their distant relatives across the sea.
Even though Jarrod had proven with actual actions that he was a man of military knowledge, Gavin Ladd still only gave him the title of a nominal consultant.
After all, this is not the home ground of the night elves, and it is not the turn of these strange outsiders to dictate the march and formation of the coalition forces.
After Gavin Rad led the Marshal's Direct Guard to join the battlefield and reap the victory, Maiev, who was still standing on the top of the castle overlooking the battle, suddenly asked: "Garod, what do you think of these emerging countries in the Eastern Continent?"
"Could they be useful in a true fight to the death against the Burning Legion and the Old Gods?"
"Well..." Jarod pondered for a moment before answering: "It's hard to say."
During the Second War of Quicksand a few years ago, the night elves briefly cooperated with the Eastern Kingdom's army under the leadership of Quel'Thalas.
However, Jarod had not yet returned to the tribe at that time, and it was Archdruin Malfurion Stormrage who commanded the war.
This short-lived cooperation did not really bring the relationship between the two parties closer. Except for Quel'Thalas, which has a deep connection with the night elves, other countries in the Eastern Kingdom are still very unfamiliar with these branches of elves with purple skin.
Witnessing the battle between the Alliance and the Burning Legion with his own eyes, Jarod recognized the fighting will shown by soldiers of all races in the Alliance in this war.
But just relying on this low-intensity war, it is not certain whether they can perform as well as before in a truly difficult war.
Yes, in Jarod's view, the battle with this demonic force is just an appetizer before the Burning Legion's massive invasion.
Compared with the elite Burning Legion 10,000 years ago, this motley crew under Kazak lacks sufficient gold content and can only be used for training.
If the combat power of this partial division is used to defeat the main force of the Burning Legion, the Eastern Kingdom's coalition forces, who underestimate the enemy, will definitely suffer heavy losses in the future.
And this is what makes Jarod puzzled.
"With the abilities that Sarlayan has shown over the years, I don't think he can't calculate how many troops it will take to defeat this demonic division."
Jarod looked thoughtfully at Sarlayan, who was still fighting in dragon form above the battlefield: "Mobilizing such a large-scale army to deal with a group of demons with weak combat effectiveness is obviously a waste of resources."
"In his own words, this is killing a chicken with a bull's-eye."
"The problem is..." Jarod rubbed his eyebrows in distress: "Why would he do this? Just to enhance the confidence and cohesion of the alliance army? This is a waste of resources."
Jarod is undoubtedly one of the greatest military geniuses Azeroth has ever seen, but as the saying goes, no one is perfect.
Compared with Jarod's innate battlefield sense and exquisite command art, his political sensitivity has always been very low, and his personal strength is far inferior to that of his peers such as Malfurion, Tyrande and Maiev.
compared to.
Maiev, who has led the Watch for nearly ten thousand years, is better than Jarod in understanding people's hearts, but it is equally difficult for her to understand why Sharlayan has to mobilize such a large-scale coalition.
Facts have proved that defeating Kazak and his army does not require too many manpower. Both Maiev and Jarod believe that this local war has an inexplicable formalism.
After hearing Jarod's question, Maiev lowered her head and muttered: "It's really strange. As far as I know, there was a large-scale rebellion at the door of Quel'Thalas not long ago."
"Logically speaking, high elves should focus their main energy on their own doorsteps. Why do they lead the main armies of various countries to the cursed land to gather and abuse people?"
Jarod smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I don't know yet. Based on my understanding of Sarlayan, he is probably planning something else. I just don't know who will be unlucky this time."
"You said..." As the head of intelligence, Maiev has never been afraid to speculate on people's hearts from the worst angle: "Is Sarlayan deliberately transferring the main force of Quel'Thalas away from the mainland, so that he can be found legitimately?"
Excuse, unable to reinforce Lordaeron?"
Jarod asked in confusion: "But what exactly is he doing this for?"
"The rebellion in Lordaeron occurred in the Stratholme region not far from the border of Quel'Thalas. How can he be sure that the rebels will not attack Quel'Thalas, which is close to Chichi?"
Maiev's eyes narrowed, and she boldly made a guess without evidence: "What if the Lordaeron rebels are supported by Quel'Thalas?"
Jarod shook his head without hesitation: "Impossible, you have said before that unlike Terenas, the ambitious former king of Lordaeron, Sharlayan and Jiali, who has a more gentle diplomatic approach,
Queen Ya has a very close personal relationship.”
"Quel'Thalas and Lordaeron are currently in a diplomatic honeymoon period. He has no reason to plot against friendly neighboring countries when the Burning Legion invades Azeroth."
Jarod's analysis was very reasonable. After all, Maiev was not a person who was proficient in political methods, so she quickly gave up this "unreliable" guess.
"I don't understand. He can't possibly be plotting against us night elves, right?"
Maiev's words were just a joke to lighten the atmosphere, and Jarod didn't take it seriously at all.
At this time, the two siblings did not realize that their unintentional words hit the target.
"Anyway."
Jarod turned his attention again to the battlefield where the winner was about to be decided: "This local war still exposed many problems."
"Although the hastily assembled coalition forces were large in scale, their coordination was seriously insufficient. Marshal Gavin Rudd was unable to unite soldiers from different countries and continued to fight independently most of the time."
Garrod's comments hit the mark.
Before the war began, Sharlayan intended for Quel'Thalas' new army to train with the coalition forces in advance to cultivate battlefield tacit understanding.
However, Marshal Gavin Rudd believed that the preparation time before the war was not enough. Instead of hastily breaking up the various legions and forcibly joining them together, it was better to let them maintain their original organization and form separate armies.
This resulted in the coalition forces actually fighting separately during the actual battle. According to Garrod's standards, this hastily formed coalition force had not yet reached the passing line for joint operations.
But this means that Jarod's standards are too high. To put it bluntly, there have been few commanders in Azeroth who can compare with him in the past dynasties. To put it even more extreme, there has not been one.
Just because Jarod was able to quickly unite races with completely different fighting methods during the War of the Ancients does not mean that others can easily do the same.
The two alliance generals Lothar and Turayan may be able to do it, but at least Gavin Rudd doesn't have that ability.
From Garrod's perspective, Gavin Rudd's performance as commander-in-chief is already remarkable, but it is not perfect in some aspects.
"I heard this war will be Field Marshal Gavin Rudd's battlefield swan song."
Jarod turned his attention to Gavin Rad, who was always vigorously wielding the Holy Light on the battlefield: "With the Alliance Grand Marshal Turayan missing, I don't know who the alliance member states will ask to take his place."
Maiev shrugged nonchalantly: "With so many countries and so many people in the alliance, we can always find a suitable candidate. It's not the turn of outsiders like us to worry about this."
Jarod nodded worriedly: "I hope so. In the foreseeable 12 years, the focus of the Burning Legion's offensive should still be on the Eastern Kingdom."
"I wonder if the newly rebuilt alliance can withstand the endless dissension and conspiracy schemes of fraudsters."
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The outcome of the battle was just as Jarrod expected.
After Gavin Rudd personally led the Chinese army to join the battlefield, the Burning Legion, which was attacked from both sides and was overwhelmed from the right, finally could no longer hold on.
As Kazzak, who was seriously injured and in poor condition, screamed and was stabbed through the heart by Onyxia's claw, the morale of the demon army completely collapsed.
It will take a lot of time to clear out those soldiers who have low fighting spirit and just want to escape, but these small problems no longer require the personal intervention of senior officers such as Sarlayan and Gavin Rad.
The last battle in his life ended perfectly. Gavin Ladd, who had no regrets anymore, safely passed on the position of Marshal of the Kingdom of Stormwind to Duke Bolvar Fordragon, who was in his prime.
After the transfer of military power was basically completed, before dawn the next day, Marshal Gavin Rudd walked lightly with a few old soldiers who had followed him in the north and south for many years.
Officially retired, Gavin Rudd plans to return to his hometown in the Wild West and live out his life in the countryside.
Gavin Rudd left after his merits were fulfilled. After the war, the Alliance was left with a huge mess that still needed to be resolved one by one.
The first thing to bear the brunt of is how to arrange the Alliance expeditionary force that has returned to its hometown after many years.