Chapter 1671 Spring Offensive (Second Update)

In this way, Duke was still very satisfied. Looking at the image of the Door of Fear peeked through the magic eyes, a thick smile appeared at the corner of Duke's mouth.

"Breaking down one door is more convenient than knocking down three doors."

The rebellion of the Knights of the Ebon Blade proves the famous saying, "The strongest fortress is always breached from within."

With the Shadow Vault as the base point, Duke teleported over unscrupulously and smashed the Scourge's mage tower.

The blizzard surrounding the entire Icecrown Glacier is not a natural thing. It is a magical fulcrum specially set by the ancestor Lich King Ner'zhul on several important elemental veins of Icecrown Glacier. Relying on the mage towers on these fulcrums, Ner'zhul's magic can pass through the entire Icecrown Glacier without any obstacles.

When the Knights of the Ebon Blade rebelled, they killed the lich in the mage tower as soon as possible. Duke just cleaned his hands and tail.

There are seven fulcrums in the entire Icecrown Glacier, forming a six-pointed star with Malekaris Evil Castle as the center.

It does not mean that a six-pointed star will turn into a five-pointed star by itself if one corner is removed. That kind of unbalanced collapse is the most deadly. Duke estimated that as long as his magic network completes its invasion of the Shadow Vault and takes root here, the power of the blizzard surrounding Icecrown Glacier will be reduced by at least 50%.

From the original cannonballs that couldn't fly in, to the largest flying battleship that can sail in, the difference is simply a world of difference.

Because of this, Darien's surrender is so precious.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the coalition forces formed a multi-faceted siege around Icecrown Glacier - the Knights of the Ebon Blade to the northwest, the defense area with the Crusader Trial Arena as the core to the northeast, Dalaran above the Crystalsong Forest to the southeast, and Dalaran to the southwest. Wintergrasp Fortress where Alkavon's hoard is located.

In January, Duke unexpectedly asked Naxxramas to launch a surprise attack, taking the Baragad Fortress directly to the west of Icecrown Glacier.

In the second half of this winter, both the Scourge and the Allied forces were in a tug-of-war. Unwilling to be reconciled, Arthas launched a dozen large-scale all-out attacks involving millions of bones and three times involving five million bones. From the remains of small animal-level hares to giant mammoth zombies and bone dragons, it's simply overwhelming.

Several attacks on a scale of five million bones cost the coalition forces an average of 35,000 deaths per battle, and the scrapping of more than a thousand tanks and heavy artillery.

This is still the tactic of the coalition forces using a large number of modern artillery to withstand the sea of ​​corpses of the Scourge. Otherwise, it would not be unusual for the casualties to double.

The casualty figures made both Duke and Thrall look quite bad.

Duke is because of the astronomical military spending.

Sal because of the loss of life. There is no way, the Alliance army is developing towards diversification. The most basic melee combat sword and shield soldiers are the least. After the tribe joins, when it comes to infantry battles, the main force will definitely be the orc infantry.

The only thing that can comfort Thrall is that the weapons provided by the Alliance to the Horde are quite sophisticated.

The steel weapons, all blessed by the Holy Light, are admirable for their strength and toughness, and are much better than the equipment produced by the tribe. And the alliance promised that the tribe could take away these weapons after this battle. Even the weapons used by those killed in battle can be sent back to their relatives in Kalimdor as relics.

This kind of kindness was unanimously praised by everyone in the tribal expeditionary force.

It's not a pity.

The remains of those who died in battle cannot be transported away and must be cremated on the spot. This conflicts with the traditional orc shamanic teachings. But there is no way, even if the corpse is sprinkled with holy water, it is not safe. As long as the dark magic of the lich comes over, when the power of darkness exceeds the power of light, the corpse will still appear to be a corpse.

However, I still managed to withstand it.

Throughout the winter, the alliance's factories never stopped working, and they continued to produce arms and military supplies in three shifts.

When the shortage was most severe, Duke even had to use the magic of the magic net to open fixed portals to transport the wounded to the rear and transport the most scarce ammunition to the front line.

Time enters March 26 of the Dark Portal.

The characteristics of Northrend as a polar continent, coupled with the high altitude of the plateau area of ​​​​Icecrown Glacier, destined that there would be no spring flowers here.

It's just that the temperature has changed from dozens of degrees below zero to a few degrees below zero. This is spring.

Without the cover of the violent winter snowstorms, Alsace finally restrained his arrogance, and the Scourge army almost completely shrunk, only staying in the Icecrown Glacier area.

In Naxxramas, during the coalition meeting hosted by Duke, the various bigwigs either sent people to attend or sent messages through magic.

"The time has come for a full-scale attack on Icecrown Glacier." Duke made this declaration at the beginning.

"Why don't you wait until summer? Although it's spring now, the cold is still a bit weakening the power of the Red Dragon Legion's dragon breath."

Duke said in a deep voice: "No wait! I have detected multiple space teleportations recently. Arthas must have sent a large number of middle and low-level lichs out, probably to collect corpses. If we wait too long, I'm afraid we will end up in Nuo Sende will encounter a counter-siege, and even if it can be defended, it will put a lot of pressure on logistics. By June, either the troops will be reduced by 200,000, or the entire Northern Expedition coalition will starve together and only have half a meal every day. "

Now in the Northrend continent, after continuous recruitment of troops, the Alliance and the Horde have a total army of 500,000. With so many people eating, drinking, and sleeping, plus the corresponding military supplies, if it weren't for Duke, a super internal affairs officer with a system wizard, the logistics mobilization alone would probably drive a thousand-person logistics headquarters crazy.

You know, not counting summary and judgment, there are more than 3,000 logistics officers performing logistics work alone. Not counting non-military support personnel.

Fortunately, as early as the Battle of Mount Hyjal, the Alliance began to focus on cultivating talents for cross-sea combat logistics. Only then could we barely make up enough logistics officers.

In fact, apart from the necessary regular trading ships, all the merchant ships of the Marcus family, Kul Tiras and Alterac have been mobilized to supply Northrend.

Still not enough.

"That's fine. Let's have a decisive battle!" Thrall sighed. One hundred thousand warriors were lost in one winter. If it was a tribe that had just arrived in Kalimdor, its vitality would be severely damaged. Even if Draenor's orcs and one hundred thousand strong orc warriors were replaced, it would still be a big loss.

"It would be nice if we could have more troops. At least the attacks could be rotated in batches." Magni muttered.

Thrall suddenly thought of something: "Yes, the forgotten ones of the tribe... Anastrian said that they are willing to fight."

"Huh?" Duke's eyes suddenly lit up.