As far as the current situation is concerned, Nanhai Town is temporarily unstoppable, and there is no need to worry about the orcs' attack. However, the allied forces in Nanhai Town cannot defeat the orc siege forces outside Nanhai Town.
Alterac Valley is the only last line of defense for the Kingdom of Alterac. If Alterac Valley falls, the Kingdom of Alterac will also be destroyed.
Moreover, the Alterac Valley is also the main line of defense that prevents the orcs from taking shortcuts to go north and directly attack the most important city in the Alliance, Lordaeron, the royal city of the Kingdom of Lordaeron.
With these two reasons, the Alterac Valley Alliance must hold on no matter what. Because of these two reasons, Alterac Valley's status among the three main battlefields is even better than that of Nanhai Town.
Because once the Royal City of Lordaeron falls, it will basically declare the end of the Second War, which means that the Second War Alliance has finally failed completely.
With the dragons without a leader, even if the magical city-state of Dalaran and the kingdom of Quel'Thalas of the high elves still have relatively complete strength, the alliance between them alone will eventually be unable to save the day.
Compared to Alterac Valley and Southsea Town, the town of Tarren Mill is less important, so Tarren Mill has become the weakest link in the allied defense line that prevents the main force of the orcs from moving north.
In fact, since the establishment of this line of defense, Tarren Mill has been frequently lost, and has even changed hands several times. Although Tarren Mill is not as important as Alterac Valley and Southsea Town, a line of defense is most taboo for the enemy to break through from the middle.
Cut into two pieces.
Because that would cause inconvenience in communication and command, and it would be impossible to coordinate from head to tail. Therefore, on the general battlefield, if one party's defense line is breached by another, they will often retreat across the board and then rearrange a new line of defense.
However, in this battle, even if Tarren Mir fell, Lothar would not be able to retreat and rearrange the defense line. This is because this is almost the last line of defense for the Allies, especially in the Alterac Valley.
in this way.
Therefore, this is also the most troublesome part for Lothar and the most difficult part for him.
Lothar repeatedly asked the Wildhammer dwarves of the Hinterlands to send troops from the Eagle's Nest to the Durnholde area. In fact, to a large extent, he wanted to reduce the pressure on Tarren Mir and stabilize the endangered Alterac and Talren.
The defensive line of Mir and Nanhai Town is to avoid causing a troublesome situation where the main force of the alliance army cannot look after each other.
The several changes of hands of Tarren Mill had long since exhausted Lothar, the Grand Marshal of the Alliance. But fortunately, the orcs were too aggressive. Although they occupied a large area, their troops were too scattered and unable to concentrate their absolute power on Ultra.
The three main battlefields of Rank, Tarren Mill, and Nanhai Town allowed the Allies to hold on to the defense line at this time and successfully prevented the main force of the orcs from continuing to move north.
From a strategic point of view, Lothar has actually succeeded so far, and the orcs have failed.
Although the orcs still have a dominant position on the main battlefield, the orcs are still defeated. Because the alliance strategically successfully blocked the orcs from continuing to move north, and this is the purpose of establishing this line of defense on the alliance's side, so the alliance
The strategic purpose was achieved.
Although the orcs still have a military advantage on the battlefield and are still in the active position of attacking, they have failed strategically. The alliance has successfully curbed their momentum to move north, and they have lost the sharpness of their offensive. Their strategy
The purpose was not achieved.
In many wars, winning or losing is not determined by who dies more and who dies less, or who occupies more land and who occupies less land, but by who achieves their strategic goals.
Therefore, the Chinese chess player loses as soon as the master dies. Therefore, in Chinese Go, we often see that the dominant side originally occupied a large chessboard, but with just a small oversight, it was suddenly cleared by others.
The orcs now seem to have an advantage in a large territory, but they have neglected one thing. This is that their rear is very unstable, so they are likely to collapse at any time. However, when they discovered this, they were too
It's too late, they don't have enough troops.
Yulin Blood Eagle was also laughing secretly at this time. The orcs must be regretting that their troops were too spread out and the battle line was spread too wide!
Gul'dan is really not a good commander! He is just a man with the commanding talents of a mid-level officer, but he chooses to be the general commander of the orcs.
The orcs have such a powerful military force for nothing, but they have ended up in such a bad situation today. No wonder the orcs are dissatisfied, no wonder Gul'dan was replaced by Doomhammer in rebellion.
If Gul'dan didn't rush forward and fight steadily after destroying the Kingdom of Stormwind, how could the orcs be in the current dilemma of insufficient troops?
Look at the Ironforge of the Bronzebeard dwarves and the dwarfs of Gnomeregan and their surrounding areas. The orcs have not completely captured it. They are eager to attack the Kingdom of Proudmoore, but the port of Menethil, the capital of the Kingdom of Proudmoore, has not been completely captured.
The orcs had completely captured and occupied the city, and the city of Menethil was still in the hands of Admiral Daelin. Gul'dan was eager to find the main force of the Allied forces to fight against him.
Okay! He can win, and he also takes advantage of the situation to occupy a large area and resources of the Arathi Kingdom. If Gul'dan knew to stop here, he would not have entered again, but would have occupied the Arathi Kingdom.
The whole territory was conquered.
As well as capturing all the rear areas that our troops have passed south of Arathi on the eastern continent, and clearing out the main allied resistance forces that are still lingering in their rear areas. After liberating the orc troops that besieged the city, we can then concentrate the elite main force to move north.
If so, the orcs will be overwhelming by then, and the alliance will be unable to withstand such a powerful attack.
It's a pity that Gul'dan didn't do this, but ignored it, chased the main Allied forces all the way and divided his troops everywhere, which finally led to this bad situation.
Look what this daredevil Gul'dan has done? The Bronzebeard dwarves of Dun Morogh and the orcs in the gnome region have allocated a considerable portion of their forces to attack and suppress the Bronzebeard dwarves and gnomes.
Then they divided their forces and sent people to attack Proudmoore, but the orc troops who went to attack Proudmoore were trapped by the High Elf Expeditionary Legion and Daelin.
However, Gul'dan did not take advantage of the situation and send more troops to destroy Daelin and completely occupy Proudmoore. Instead, he first attacked the main Allied force defending the Strait of Hormuz in Arathi.
However, I don’t know if it’s because of Gul’dan’s good luck or because he has a heroic aura. Such a risky and reckless decision-making, almost gambling, actually allowed Gul’dan to succeed, and even allowed him to occupy most of the Kingdom of Arathi.
area.
If Gul'dan paused to rest and digest the territory he had occupied, the orcs would still have a chance, but Gul'dan was not yet satisfied.