This is Prell's first time entering the Azshara region.
It's late summer now, and the dry season in the Barrens is blocked by the mountains in the north, and it can't affect Azshara. Marching in the primeval forest of Ashenvale, the climate is cool, crossing the wooden bridge built by the Night Elf Vanguard Army on the Wrath River, and generally
Rael led the garrison and set off towards the predetermined location.
Along the way, the Thresh Kingdom's army attracted the attention of many indigenous races. After all, among the armies of all races and forces participating in the war, the Thresh Kingdom's garrison had the most diverse composition, including kobolds and harpies.
, gnolls, and a group of ogres and dark iron dwarves.
The black iron dwarves are naturally Morgan and Manbeard, the blacksmiths. Prell takes them as support staff. Of course, for the dwarves, going to the battlefield is their purpose.
Another race with diverse arms is the orcs. Their army includes orcs, darkspear trolls and a small number of goblins.
This is a large coalition composed of races that are deeply contradictory to each other, such as night elves and harpies, such as night elves and trolls, such as humans and orcs, such as humans and gnolls. In short, in order to reconcile, Tai
Rand and others tried their best.
Some night elf leaders even believe that Prell has caused trouble for the coalition forces by recruiting so many indigenous races. After all, some logistics work requires coordination by the night elves, which is a laborious and thankless task.
matter.
But Cenarius rarely criticized those dissatisfied voices. He believed that the reason why Prell called on these indigenous races was that their purpose was to fight against the Burning Legion, and the starting point was always good.
Now Fandral Staghelm no longer thinks that Prell wants to seize command of the coalition forces, because there are five hundred quilboars from Razor Ridge, one thousand quilboars from Thorn Ridge, and one thousand quilboars from Thornback.
Five, five hundred Bloodfury Harpies have arrived. Even counting the two thousand from the Witchwing Clan and the three thousand from the Pure Thresh Kingdom, the total strength is only 8,500.
Compared to the less than 5,000 people sent by humans, although the number of indigenous coalition forces is large, their combat effectiveness may be far inferior.
Naturally, Theramore does not only have such a small number of troops. Since Jaina's westward journey, she has continuously sent ships from the Eastern Kingdom mainland to receive people from Lordaeron, Alterac and the Kingdom of Stromgarde who are willing to come, and he also brought
She took away half of the fleet in her father's name from the Kingdom of Kul Tiras.
In fact, Theramore is the same as the orcs. The ones who can safely reach the continent of Kalimdor are basically young and strong. And most of Theramore's troops belong to the navy. The number of soldiers in the army is not large. Jaina can almost bring them out.
All the soldiers were brought out.
On Thrall's side, he temporarily arranged the tribesmen brought out of Dustwallow Marsh to Ashenvale, and then together with Grom Hellscream, he selected about 10,000 strong soldiers, which was also almost the entire combat strength of the orcs.
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It can be said that the various races and forces that came to participate in the war this time brought out the most powerful warriors. After all, their enemy is the Burning Legion!
Tens of thousands of troops marched in batches, and the orc army joined in halfway. We all know the principle of "soldiers need speed", but the assembly of the army, the discussion of the responsibilities of the participating forces, and the distribution of positions, these battles
The things that needed to be prepared in advance delayed the army for another half a month.
Prell has always had a little doubt. He didn't understand why the night elves didn't place their defensive positions near the coast of Azshara. Even though he didn't know where the Burning Legion's fleet would dock, he could think of it as
There are not many bays with temporary docks.
After he entered Azshara and crossed the Raging River, he finally understood that the night elves' arrangement made sense.
Different from the beautiful scenery of Azshara full of red maples in his memory, in the real Azshara region, the salty sea breeze blowing from the endless sea is mixed with endless storms. It is dozens of miles away.
You can see the black clouds sweeping across the sky and the thunder and lightning hidden in the dark clouds.
More than 10,000 years ago, this place was once the location of Jin-Azsari City, the capital of the great elven empire. Ten thousand years ago, the ancient war and the explosion of the Well of Eternity destroyed the ancient Azeroth.
The continent of Sri Lanka exploded into several pieces, and the area that was later named by the night elves after the former elf queen was shrouded in endless storms.
The Thresh Kingdom garrison led by Prell, as well as other wild boar and harpy armies were all mixed together. Their positions were in the center, with the orc army in the north, and the ones in the far north near the Hyjal Mountains.
The assembled night elf army.
As for the southern part of the mixed indigenous coalition, it is the Tauren Legion, and the southernmost part is handed over to the humans of Theramore. Such position layout obviously took a lot of thought on the part of the night elf commanders. After all, they have to take into account the conflicts between the various races.
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And even if the Thresh Kingdom and other indigenous coalition forces are mixed, the top commander of the Chinese army is not Prell. In fact, the position here is also divided into two large parts, the Screaming Thornback Clan and the Thorny Ridge.
Steelmane quilboars together.
Prell led the Witchwing Clan Harpies and Bloodfury Harpies. Originally, the Bloodfury Harpies were not happy to be commanded by a kobold, but Tyrande personally spoke, and the Bloodfury Clan's Mistress revealed
Demila agreed without saying a word.
The Razor Ridge Steelmane Quilboar were originally assigned to Screamer Thornmane's subordinates, but Georod Zagreb was very dissatisfied with the last battle in the Backwater Oasis, so he took the initiative to move closer to Prell, which made Screamer Thornmane.
Zongzhi lost his temper, but there was nothing he could do.
Prell's army is backed by the ruins of the Shadowsong Temple. It is said that this was the palace where the upper elves once studied and learned arcane magic. In the big explosion ten thousand years ago, this place had already become a
ruins.
There are scattered and fallen stone pillars everywhere, and on the top of a hill, there is a small pavilion with pillars that has not been completely eroded by time, covered by huge vines and trees.
After confirming his own defense line, Prell immediately ordered his men to start digging trenches. Grom Hellscream, who came to visit, was very interested and asked specifically about it. He found that this tactic was not suitable for orcs, so
I gave up my intention to imitate and learn.
"If this land didn't have so many storms, it would be a good choice for us to build a new home!" After killing Mannoroth and eliminating the curse of the demon blood, Grom Hellscream no longer looks as handsome as before.
The extremely bloodthirsty, violent and furious state has completely disappeared from him.
"A few months ago, our fleet landed on the coast there. A huge storm destroyed at least seven or eight of our ships, and hundreds of brothers were swept into the whirlpool in the sea. Moreover, we were also hit by
When we get to Naga, sea monsters, and lobsters are attacked, it’s really tragic!”
Grom pointed to the southeast, where the sky was covered with dark clouds, and he had a sad look on his face. Prell comforted him and said: "Everything is over, isn't it? We have to move forward and look forward!"
Grom was silent for a while, and suddenly laughed heartily: "You are right, we have to look forward!" Grom had a good impression of this kobold who saved his life. He felt that
I owe a huge favor to myself.
The Burning Legion arrived much faster than everyone expected. On the third day after the army arrived in Azshara, the raptor druids sent by the night elves discovered three forward ships arriving and docking.
On the afternoon of the fifth day, the vanguard of the Burning Legion had already rushed through the Timbermaw Fortress, passed through the northern part of the ruins of Edarath, and marched toward Mount Hyjal.
The number of raptor druids is still very rare even in the Cenarion Circle. At the beginning, Prell borrowed five tauren raptor druids from Cairn Bloodhoof and Hamuul Runetotem.
It took a lot of words.
In any race, the status of a spell caster is lofty, but it is extremely rare to use a Raptor Druid as a general scout like Prell. But Prell gave Gonzalo Swift Wind the opportunity to
The five tauren raptor druids were assigned very high military positions and received excellent treatment. At least at this point, the other druids of the Cenarion Circle were speechless.
As for Timbermaw Fortress, it is a zigzag mountain fortress built by the furbolgs who have always been good friends with the night elves, with Mount Hyjal as their base. The furbolgs have always guarded Mount Hyjal and Isa.
Pull the area junction gate.
But this time the Burning Legion's vanguard was too powerful, and the furbolgs didn't last long at all. Due to heavy losses, they had to retreat behind the steel gate.
The night elves only have a small stronghold in the Azshara region called Nandis Village, which is near Timbermaw Fortress. Its main task is to patrol the coastline, but due to the small number of troops, it has long been withdrawn to the rear.
The Timbermaw Fortress was defeated after holding out for less than a day. This made the night elves realize the strength of the enemy, so they became more cautious. And this tense atmosphere spread quickly, and almost everyone who participated in the battle felt heavy in their hearts.
"There are too many people, it's so dark. They don't seem to need to eat or rest. Even at night, they are marching silently and tirelessly. They are a group of monsters!"
Gonzalo Swift Wind was trembling all over after returning from the investigation. It was not from fear, but from being frozen in the storm in the Azshara region. He described what he saw to Prell and others.
"Are they ghouls, skeleton soldiers and abominations?" Prell asked, and Gonzalo said: "I didn't see any skeleton soldiers, but there was a huge and ugly monster that looked like it had been killed by various
The corpses were sewn together, and they were exuding green poisonous mist. Although they looked very clumsy, I think they were very powerful in fighting.
There are also a large number of unknown reptile-like creatures, and mixed among them are some humans wearing black cloaks. It is they who command and drive these monsters to sweep forward like locusts! "
"Those are the abominations, the ghouls and the acolytes, the humans who believe in the Cult of the Damned and dedicate their souls to the Lich King Ner'zhul. There should be necromancers among them!" Prell pondered for a moment and said:
"Share the news to other allies immediately!"
A kobold guard had brought a blanket, and Gonzalo shivered and took it and put it on his body. Prell frowned when he saw at least four or five black spots flying back from the sky in the distance.
He looked at the watchtower in front of the position.
Up there, a kobold soldier holding a telescope suddenly waved the flag, then blew the horn, and then the desolate horn sound continued to be heard from the distance.
"It's coming so fast!" Prell pulled out the Burning Blade and shouted to the officers around him: "Get ready to fight!"