In today's Gale Valley area, according to intelligence obtained from various investigations, the logging team with Cliff Lake as its base camp has approximately 600 to 800 logging team members, mainly from humans, goblins, Ironforge dwarves and Riverclaw gnolls, as well as a number of
Fewer ogres.
Cliff Lake is in the northwest of Gale Valley, about 5 days' journey to the southeast, and is the Gale Mine. Currently, there are about 3,000 kobolds in the Gale Mine, about 200 riverclaw gnoll overseers, and 60
Ogres left and right.
More than 10 miles north of the Gale Mine, on the shores of Black Wolf Lake, is the venture capital company's largest weapons manufacturing base on the continent of Kalimdor. There are about 200 goblin workers, 60 Ironforge dwarf blacksmiths, and 50
ogre guards and 300 gnoll blacksmith apprentices and guards.
Near the Black Wolf Lake, Gresu migrated from the Elwynn Forest of the Eastern Kingdom mainland to a small tribe of River Claw gnolls. There are about 400 people, mainly the family members of the gnoll employees in the mines, arsenals and logging teams.
, is also responsible for felling trees on the shores of Black Wolf Lake.
In other words, if Prell wants to truly take the Gale Valley as his own, the enemies he will face include at least 400 to 500 goblins, 200 to 300 ogres, and about a thousand jackals.
People, as for human and dwarf hired workers, there are about 150 dwarves, and they are mainly responsible for technical work, while the number of humans is about 300 or more.
In other words, the total number of employees and guards of the venture capital company in the Gale Valley area is roughly around 2,400. This is based on Prell's previous understanding of the Gale Mine, some information provided by Jikoniku, and Gonsa
There may be some discrepancies in the data compiled by Luo and other Raptor Druid high-altitude reconnaissance.
Among them, ogres and jackals are both combat arms. Although the number of dwarves is not large, their combat effectiveness is equally strong. As for humans, most of them are veterans who retired after the orc invasion war. It can be said that this group of employees of the venture capital company,
It is an armed colonial force itself.
Not to mention the goblin hirelings who are short in stature but are proficient in firearms. During the Gale Mine period, even the civilian goblin hirelings were good at marksmanship and often went hunting in the forest in teams.
On Prell's side, he dispatched a thousand garrison troops from Thresh Kingdom, the harpies sent out 200 troops, and the tauren sent out 800 soldiers, for a total of 2,000 soldiers, plus 400 kobolds responsible for logistics.
One man and one hundred harpies, in terms of military strength alone, the two sides were barely even.
The army previously sent by Prell to participate in the Backwater Oasis actually did not carry auxiliary logistics units. All logistics work was basically taken care of by the tauren. In this battle, the logistics was completely handed over to the Kingdom of Thresh.
Therefore, Prell left the logistics arrangements to the panda man Lao Chen. He was meticulous and thoughtful, and Prell had absolute trust in him.
Although the climate of the Stonetalon Mountains is affected by the Barrens and does not have strict four seasons, it can barely be distinguished into a rainy season and a dry season. However, the new year is at the turn of the year. At this time, the cobweb paths, yellow leaves of the trees, and autumn colors in the Stonetalon Mountains
scene.
Due to the frequent exchanges between tauren and kobolds in the Burning Sun Stone Dwelling, Rolling Rock Canyon, and Apalaye Camp, the road has also been widened. The deep-moss spiders that often broke into the road in the past have also disappeared. Occasionally,
There was a small group of forest horned deer who were frightened and ran away from a distance.
It takes about three days to travel from Rolling Rock Canyon to the spacious canyon mouth at the entrance to Gale Valley, and you need to pass through the Hisel Valley, the birthplace of all spiders in the Stonetalon Mountains.
Tauren and kobolds also have durable racial talents. They are both good at traveling long distances, and harpies can fly, so the speed of this mixed team is not slow.
By dusk on the third day, they had arrived at the southern end of the Gale Canyon and hid in a forest that had not been cleared by the goblins.
The venture capital company, or the person in charge, Gresu, set up a small traffic inspection post at the mouth of the canyon. Previously, there were only a few small teams stationed there, but after the Battle of the Backwater Oasis broke out, the goblins also sent additional manpower here.
, there are about less than a hundred garrison troops, mainly jackals and goblins.
The biggest advantage of choosing to raid Gale Valley on New Year's Day is that goblins, humans and dwarves all have to return to the Eastern Kingdom to celebrate the festival, so the garrison here only has a small group of goblins and dozens of gnolls left.
The total strength was only about 60 people. The key to the problem was that the defenders could not light smoke as a warning during a sneak attack. So after discussing with Magatha and others, Prell decided to lead the team in person, and he must wait until the defenders react.
Before coming over, capture the sentry post.
For Prell, night raids are what he is best at. The teammates he chose, in addition to Snoo, Belga and Lestalen, the three people who have been with him the longest and are most familiar with each other, Lake
Sa naturally wanted to follow. Pierto Thunderhorn was also in the team. Braylin Firefist volunteered, as well as two teams of kobold musketeers, a team of kobold grenadiers, and ten harpy spellcasters.
Considering the size, Prell just asked for all the tauren raptor druids who went with the army, a total of six, led by Gonzalo Swift Wind, and eight claw druids, who would transform into cheetahs.
, following behind the team.
In order to attack the venture capital company's power in the Gale Mine, Prell has been planning for three years. He will never allow himself to make any mistakes, and with the help of the Raptor Druids, since the year before last, the Gale Valley has been
Became the target of surveillance by the druids.
Not long after the Battle of the Backwater Oasis ended, Gonzalo also brought several supporting Raptor Druids to continue a more detailed investigation of the Gale Valley. The venture capital company had personnel in every camp in the Gale Valley.
Their distribution and terrain location were clearly investigated.
After dinner, Prell took the selected team members and headed towards the Gale Canyon. Unlike Rolling Rock Canyon, the Gale Canyon is the only way to lead to the Gale Valley on the spider web path, like two butts.
The speaker is wide at both ends and narrow in the middle.
The sentry set up by the venture capital company was at the narrowest point in the middle. The goblins even ordered the hired workers to build a wooden wall blocking the intersection. The sentry's small camp was just behind the wooden wall.
Prell and Lexa led the night attack, and the command of the army was naturally handed over to Magatha. Grimtotem, who stayed behind. Magatha did not have much military talent, but she was senior and experienced. She
All you have to do is follow Prell's previous arrangements and quietly wait for the news ahead.
Magatha Grimtotem does not completely trust the kobolds. This is due to her own painful experience and the painful historical lessons of the tauren.
Hundreds of years ago, the union of Princess Theradras and Zaltar gave birth to the centaur race. When the centaur, with its super reproductive ability, murdered its father Zaltar, and began to spread its wealth to people outside Marathon.
As the area cautiously expanded, the first intelligent race they encountered was the tauren.
The tauren expressed enough goodwill towards this new race and enthusiastically taught them how to survive, hunt and inhabit the vast grasslands of Desolace.
However, as the Centaur's strength continued to grow, the pressure of survival and the cruelty and barbarism hidden in their blood caused them to attack the tauren, a race that had helped them.
The war between the two races lasted for several generations. Magatha Grimtotem's parents were killed in a centaur attack, along with her family and some tribesmen.
From that moment on, Magatha's heart completely changed. "Terror Totem" is a surname with a long history in the tauren race and is famous for its shamans. Therefore, Magatha has received good training since she was a child.
Shaman education and tauren historical heritage.
She felt that there was no long-term friendship between any race, and even the closest allies would betray each other for their own benefit. Her thoughts influenced many tauren, and they secretly formed a small group that believed in
Magatha's doctrine, and more radically put forward the racial chauvinism idea of "tauren supremacy".
But as a qualified politician, Magatha is very good at hiding her thoughts and opinions, such as from the kobolds. She has always felt that with the strength of the kobold race, they can serve as a vassal race of the tauren, but
Only he cannot be regarded as an ally who can sit on equal footing.
Therefore, she was actually worried about Preel. If not for Preel's sudden appearance, she and the tauren race would not have even given the kobolds a second look.
Prell conquered Gogo Cave with his talents and established a small kingdom that was mainly composed of kobolds and also included other races. Considering the overall interests of the tauren group, the Kingdom of Thresh did help the tauren.
Very big, but Magatha has always had a doubt hidden in her heart.
She didn't know how far Prell had seen, or how far his ideals or ambitions were. In fact, she and her supporters, including other tauren elders, had discussed it several times, and almost
Everyone's opinion is different.
In Magatha's view, Prel is a kobold who is constantly growing and has unlimited potential. If Prel is a tauren, then she will definitely support him unconditionally, and is even willing to unite with others to bring him to the rescue.
Rael pushed higher.
But Prell is a kobold, which makes Magatha's attitude somewhat contradictory. On the one hand, she admires Prell's ability, and is also moved by his kindness to the tauren race that Prell shows in consistent words and deeds; but on the other hand, she appreciates Prell's ability.
On the one hand, she was worried that under the leadership of Prell, the power of the kobolds would continue to grow and eventually expand into unsatisfied ambitions, thus threatening the tauren tribe.
In the tent, the light of the candle shone brightly on Magatha's face. The other officers sitting around were patiently accompanying her. Like Magatha, they were all eagerly waiting for the night attack from Prell.
the result.
Magatha sat quietly, like a statue. Her calmness and calmness also calmed many restless officers. Magatha glanced around and looked at the tauren, kobolds and harpies in the seats.
The instructor sighed softly.
The tent's mouth was open, and the night breeze from the Stonetalon Mountains rushed in with a hint of coolness, making the candle flames sway.
A harpy mage carefully replaced the burned-out candle, and then carefully stepped aside. Magatha looked out from the tent entrance, looking at the dark night sky in the distance and the silhouette of the shadowy trees.
, her heart is not as calm as she appears on the outside.
There was silence in the camp. The soldiers had fallen asleep. Patrolling teams of kobolds and tauren were patrolling the outside of the camp, and even further outside were harpy scouts.
When the third candle was more than half burned, a small black shadow flapped its wings and landed in front of the tent. Magatha suddenly stood up, and the black shadow transformed. When the faint smoke dissipated, Ganga appeared.
Salo took two steps forward and said happily: "We have captured the goblin outpost!"