As the saying goes: Poor mountains and bad waters bring out unruly people.
The worse the environment, the more ruthless the people who come out will be, because those who are not ruthless enough often do not survive to adulthood.
Orc This is a Highlander who crashed into Stromgard.
It stands to reason that there are many farms in the Arathi Highlands, and the land is not too barren. Why has it become a barren land?
The answer is elemental creatures!
In the entire highland, there are all creatures of the elements of earth, water, fire and wind.
These creatures made of highly concentrated elements are quite unreasonable. Unlike the game, elemental creatures in reality basically do not take physical attacks.
Think about it with your head, can you kill a ball of flame with a kitchen knife?
Excluding nearly half of the places occupied by elemental creatures, there are not many places where Stromgardians can live.
When the orcs started massacring, they were accidentally led to the territory of the elemental creatures by the highlanders many times. The locals knew how to jump into the puddle to hold their breath as soon as they saw the fire elemental creature passing by. The orcs who were chasing after them didn't understand!
You were tricked to death like this!
For many poor human farmers, an orc head is often worth more than all their family belongings.
This is not simple mathematics where a head is only equal to 3 silver coins.
Although there are a lot of 3 silver coins, the bigger ones are at the back.
When the alliance was first established, the six countries broke out at the same time.
Basically, the scale of the military expansion reaches ten times that of the normal state.
The normal approach is to use existing soldiers as the backbone to expand the army, but not every veteran is suitable to be a captain or something. The gap in lower-level officers is huge.
This makes it simple and crude for nobles in all countries to recruit soldiers.
"Recruitment! Recruitment! The warrior who can bring the orc head will become an alliance sergeant and become the captain of a 10-man team!"
The nobles' thinking is very linear: Those who dare to kill orcs are definitely not cowards. Even if they are not capable of leading troops, at least they will not be frightened and run away when they see orcs. This is a qualified squad leader!
The benefits brought by the alliance sergeant are priority resettlement for the whole family of refugees, temporary housing, food rations, and even widows who can't survive to stay with them to warm their beds.
This caused a strange scene to appear on Thoradin's Wall - many Arathi refugees who had obviously fled to a safe place, after learning about the new policy, recruited friends, copied all kinds of weapons, and returned in groups.
East.
Such stragglers have no chance of winning.
With the poor medical logistics of the orcs, even if he was just pricked by a pitchfork, the wound might become infected and eventually he would die.
Pitchfork, paste is commonly known as manure fork. When farmers work, there is nothing mixed with dry matter. Bacteria are inevitable on it.
Then, the orc's scalp went numb when he discovered that there were actually humans who dug into the orc's temporary grave and chopped off his head.
If you were killed by the enemy on the battlefield and had your head chopped off, that would be okay. If you were to have your tomb robbed, it would be unbearable for the orcs who mostly still advocate shamanic culture.
They are more accustomed to soul returning to soul and soil returning to soil.
The morale of the orcs on the front line began to decline uncontrollably.
In addition, Arathi's highland knights attack the orcs mysteriously, which makes the front line very troubled.
Orgrim was very aggrieved. After losing the Frostwolf clan, the tribe no longer had another large-scale cavalry force. Other clans did still have wargs, and often a few hundred wolf cavalry could hold up to the sky.
No chief was willing to take away his own wolf cavalry and mix it with the wolf cavalry of other clans. Orgrim's idea was just put forward and met with the fiercest resistance from all the chiefs.
Before the main force of the orcs reached the Arathi Highlands, the frontline advance seemed to be stuck in a quagmire.
This allowed Stromgard to evacuate most of the refugees westward, through Thoradin's Wall, and into the Hillsbrad Foothills for refuge without being able to return to the besieged capital, Stromgarde.
It is very interesting that these refugees have received full rescue and support from the Barov family of Alterac. Because to the west of the wall, specifically the eastern section of Hillsbrad Hills including Southsea Town, that is the Barov family.
The husband family’s largest grain-producing area.
No one wants their territory to be ruined, and old Duke Barov will certainly not let the orcs run amok.
Food, tents, weapons and equipment were continuously transported to the west of the wall by the Barov family, and the number of military camps with more than 10,000 people soon exceeded ten. In addition, there were a large number of refugee camps further to the west.
Under normal circumstances, no matter how wealthy the Barov family is, it would be heartbreaking to squeeze out so much supplies.
However, there is a big dog in the alliance!
"I'm sorry! My soldiers haven't been trained yet! My main force probably won't be able to catch up with this big battle. How about I donate some money first!" McDonald said.
Everyone knows that the Stratholme Territory was the first to start raising troops. Perhaps the quality of the soldiers was not as good as that of the royal family, but the quantity was definitely exaggerated.
100,000 is already a small amount, and some people believe it if it is 200,000.
A population of 1 million and an army of 100,000 is absolutely militancy, let alone more than this number every minute. Because someone saw that someone Mai ordered all the strong peasant women to practice spears.
No one can say anything wrong with McDonald's.
He sent his number one general, Viscount Rivendell. The 10,000 elite men led by the Viscount had already passed Hadohar and were coming through the narrow mountain road at the foot of Alterac Mountain.
Eyewitnesses said that these 10,000 people even wore ordinary heavy-duty soldiers wearing steel armor.
Those who arrived before the army still had 20,000 gold coins.
These high-quality Arathor gold coins knocked Duke Barov into a daze. These were military pay donated by McDonald to the Alliance and distributed to the Barov family in the name of the Alliance through Lothar's hands.
With this money alone, the Barov family will not lose money.
Driven by its currency ability, in just one month, the Alliance assembled an army of 170,000 on the defense line of Thoradin's Wall: 80,000 from Stromgard, 10,000 from the Barov family, 20,000 from Dalaran, and the royal family of Lordaeron.
20,000, the Duke of Lordamre and Alterac each have 5,000, and there are a lot of miscellaneous marquis, earls and other miscellaneous troops.
Normally speaking, these troops with varying strengths would make their scalp numb no matter which commander they came to.
Oh! It’s a city defense battle, so that’s okay!
Tall and thick city walls give commanders more opportunities to make mistakes.
It doesn't matter if the quality of the soldiers is poor. If you hold a spear and poke any green skin that pops up, that's okay, right?
Even if the front can't withstand it, there are still Lordaeron's elite troops pressing the formation, and a countercharge can drive the orcs off the city.
On December 20, Orgrim arrived and asked the second-rate clan to launch a tentative attack.
This time, it was Orgrim's turn to feel numb.
First of all, there are not many trees in the Arathi Highlands, which is a poor place. It is full of undulating hills and turf. To make siege weapons, wood must be transported across dozens of kilometers from the east of the highlands.
It was not easy to transport some trees and build them into ladders. The defenses on the city wall were frighteningly exaggerated.
Since the city wall is so wide, Lothar can easily arrange a row of sword and shield soldiers in the front and four rows of spearmen in the back.
When an orc jumps onto the city wall, more than ten spears are often thrust at him at the same time. As long as the orc is not in full iron armor, the orc will be hit by a hole in his body.
Orgrim saw with his own eyes a warrior who he thought was very powerful. He was killed instantly when he got up to him. Then he was killed by a guy dressed as a farmer, who then sawed off his head like a big tree with a small knife.
The farmer raised the head of the orc warrior high, and a cry of envy, jealousy, and hatred suddenly erupted from those battlements.
