Chapter 674: The Dangers Facing the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas
Although the high elf ranger troops and the orc troops each have their own advantages and strengths, in terms of overall combat strength, the combat power of a main orc elite combat legion is probably about the same as that of a combined legion of high elf ranger troops.
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This is only possible because the high elf ranger troops now have a large number of battle pets. In the past, even Alleria and Sylvanas would have dared to evaluate the strength comparison between the two sides in this way.
However, even based on the current strength comparison evaluation standards between the two sides, Quel'Thalas' current situation still appears to be quite dangerous.
The High Elf Ranger Troop, a combined legion is composed of a main battle legion and a auxiliary legion, with a total of twelve thousand people. If calculated this way, then these two alone suddenly appeared in Quel'Thalas Nanyon
The elite orc main combat legion in the Song Forest can contain at least four ranger legions of the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas.
The Kingdom of Quel'Thalas' standing military strength only has ten legions, and the ranger troops in the south only have six legions in total. Therefore, the emergence of these two elite orc main combat legions has brought great challenges to the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas.
Very strong military pressure.
"Fortunately! We have transferred the expeditionary force back to the country, otherwise the situation will definitely be more difficult now!" Alleria said happily.
Sylvanaqi also frowned and looked at the big red arrows on the military map that represented the alliance between the orcs and Zul'Aman trolls and said: "Indeed! The orcs are advancing too fast! My brother-in-law wrote a letter saying that they wanted to send troops from Xuntlan.
In about twenty days, so we’d better hold off the orcs in Nanyonge Forest for at least a month or so.”
Sylvanas looked at the map seriously and said calmly: "If the orcs are allowed to run rampant like this again, I am afraid that in less than a month, the orcs will pass through the South Yonge Forest and enter the northern part of the Yonge Forest to Qingfeng Village.
Already."
"Well! Sylvanas, you are right. If this speed is maintained, these orcs will soon pass through the Southern Yonge Forest and enter the northern part of the Yonge Forest, and will fight against the defenders of Qingfeng Village.
Fight."
Alleria said: "The enemy is very destructive. Almost no place they pass through can be said to be intact. Fortunately, we evacuated many civilians in advance, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable. However,
We still have to find a way to slow down the enemy's advance, especially the advance of this group of orcs.
Qingfeng Village is different from South Yongge Forest in that civilians have not been completely evacuated there, and it is also the first line of defense to protect North Yongge Forest and Silver Moon City. Once the Qingfeng Village defense line is breached, not only Silver Moon City will be severely affected
The threat. What’s more serious is that Fanyang Port will be in danger of falling into the hands of the orcs and the Zu’aman army at any time.”
Fanyang Port is currently one of the important logistics material transfer points for all ranger units fighting in the South Yonge Forest. A large part of the logistics materials must be transported to Shalandis Island through Fanyang Port, and then transported to Shalandis Island by Shalandis Island.
After the island is transported to Golden Mist Village, Windwalker Village, or Windrunner Tower, it is then distributed to the various ranger legions that are fighting everywhere.
Therefore, Sylvanas naturally knew how important the existence of Fanyang Port was to the ranger troops in Nanyonge Forest.
In fact, in the entire battle plan of the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas, the maximum combat area that the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas can bear to give up is as far as Qingfeng Village. If Qingfeng Village cannot be defended, it means that The Kingdom of Quel'Thalas is in a very dangerous situation.
Because the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas is not as big as the Kingdom of Stormwind and the Kingdom of Lordaeron, it does not have such a large strategic depth. Once Fairwind Village is captured, if you go further north, the first one to bear the brunt will be Quel'Thalas. The capital of the Si Kingdom is Silver Moon City. Which country is willing to let the enemy's army march under the capital?
If the enemy is allowed to attack the capital, it will be very detrimental to the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas, both in terms of military morale and in a political sense. It will even have a serious impact on all the people of the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas. The impact, because it means that the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas may be destroyed at any time.
Therefore, whether the high elves are willing or not, Fairwind Village can only be the northernmost boundary point of the battlefield that the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas can willingly give up. Once the enemy approaches Fairwind Village, all the high elves in the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas will The elven troops will be forced into a positional battle in the form of a head-on decisive battle.
This is something that no one in the Elf Kingdom of Quel'Thalas wants to see, and it is also something that all the high elven armies and people of Quel'Thalas must work hard to avoid happening.
Compared with the allied forces of orcs and trolls, the high elf ranger troops are not originally a unit that is good at frontal decisive battles. The rangers are better at jungle guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare with a wider space for movement.
Therefore, although all the ranger troops in Quel'Thalas' southern Yongsong Forest are obviously at a disadvantage when facing the joint all-out attack by the orcs and Zul'Aman trolls, they must try their best to defeat them in any case. Before the orcs withdrew their troops and turned to attack the Kingdom of Lordaeron, they blocked the allied forces of the orcs and Zul'Aman trolls south of Qingfeng Village. The ideal result was that they should not be allowed to approach Qingfeng Village and kept dragging them south. In the scheduled battlefield of Yongge Forest.
Therefore, the most important task of all the ranger troops in the Nanyonge Forest is to use their familiar terrain and environment to use all means to prevent the rapid northward movement of the orcs and Zul'Aman troll alliance.
Otherwise, if the high elves are prematurely forced into a positional battle with the orcs and Zul'Aman trolls, the high elves will be very passive. If the orcs turn to attack the Kingdom of Lordaeron as expected, then Quel'Thala The Kingdom of Sri Lanka will face a very dangerous situation, and even its destruction is not impossible.
You must know that in the original history, the coalition of orcs and Zul'Aman trolls led by Doomhammer rampaged through southern Quel'Thalas, easily wiping out Goldenmist Village, Windwalk Village, and all areas south of the Taquilin line. And this area itself is equivalent to almost one-third of Quel'Thalas.
The high elves were indeed powerless to stop them at that time. If the orcs and the main Aman trolls had not disagreed later, and Doomhammer led the orc troops to attack the Royal City of Lordaeron, then the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas would have finally been defeated. It's hard to say how it will turn out.