Chapter 1672 The Artillery Fires

Not only Duke, but other league leaders were also impressed.

The factors involved are complex.

I think back then, the Forsaken led by Anastrian established a country in Lordaeron and almost allowed the Undercity to be established. This left deep psychological trauma on Lordaeron and the elves.

If it weren't for the lack of free space, perhaps the Alliance would have hunted them all down long ago, and there would be no new Undercity in Winterspring Valley, nor would they wait for them to find a chance to join the Horde.

On the other hand, the undead thugs are actually quite useful.

The undead, who do not need food or supplies, and are not afraid of the cold, can be said to be the best cannon fodder. For example, the activity of the Knights of the Ebon Blade in winter left a deep impression on the alliance bosses.

From a purely commander's perspective, sometimes I wish I had all these obedient and powerful death knights under my command.

On the other hand, no matter how many people died in the Horde, the Alliance didn't even feel sad.

If Anastrian is really willing to let the already small number of Forsaken join the fight, it will be a useful addition.

In fact, Thrall was also moved by the Sun King's proposal. For a while a while ago, Thrall almost thought that the Forsaken were going to betray the Horde. After urging several times, the Sun King finally agreed to send 50,000 Forgotten people.

Thrall has seen the quality of these soldiers.

Few of them were transformed from orcs, they were basically transformed from the corpses of humans and elves. As for the source, Thrall didn't want to care about it. Anyway, the alliance didn't make a serious protest, so Thrall just pretended that he couldn't see it.

This is also a mentality that doesn’t mean digging up one’s own ancestral grave, and it doesn’t matter how many bones come to you.

The end result was that 50,000 Forsaken fought. In addition to the most elite high-level alchemists and magic researchers, as well as some elites guard Winterspring Valley. It is no exaggeration to say that Anastrian brought all the bosses here.

In the northwest of Crystal Song Forest, Duke saw the Sun King and couldn't help but tease him: "Hey, Anastrian! You are so willing!"

"The Forsaken belong to the Horde, and all of us are loyal to the Warchief. Since it is the warchief's call, we should obey it. Now, the Horde and the Alliance are allies, and Mr. Marcus will not order his subordinates to attack allies. ?”

Since it is a dead face, there is no expression at all. No one could see Anastrian's thoughts from his dark fire eyes.

"Hey! You're such a good talker! Don't worry, the Alliance will never attack its allies, not before, not now, and never in the future!" Duke naturally dared to say these words grandly, but Duke suddenly spoke up. Turn: "Yes, I always feel that you are a guy who has no advantage and cannot afford to be early. Why are you willing to suppress almost the entire Forgotten people?"

Faced with Duke's questioning, the Sun King was not annoyed.

In his deep and dark eyes, Youhuo's eyes moved to the right and looked at Darien: "The Alliance can accept death knights, why can't the Forsaken of the tribe accept the undead who are freed from the shackles of the Lich King? Compatriots?"

What he said sounded quite reasonable.

The alliance leaders present all had such expressions.

Although the Scourge is the enemy of the world, if it works well, the Forsaken can definitely feed war with war.

Compared to Alsace's brutal double enslavement of spirit and soul, the 'freedom' of the Forsaken is certainly more attractive to the undead who have been freed from slavery.

Perhaps, if the boss of the Knights of the Ebon Blade is not Darion Mograine, but a former tribal orc chief, maybe the Knights of the Ebon Blade have thousands of death knights and all have high-level combat capabilities. The troops are cheaper than the tribe.

Duke, and only Duke, looked at Anastrian with eyes filled with amusement.

This look that seemed to see through everything made the Sun King very uncomfortable.

He spoke in an official tone: "Your Excellency, Supreme Commander Marcus, the Forgotten Legion is preparing to attack. Do you have any additional instructions?"

Duke smiled: "No more! I long to see the Forgotten Ones active on the battlefield."

"You will see it." After saying that, the Sun King turned and left.

At nine o'clock in the morning on March 15, 2016, the Dark Portal, the coalition forces composed of the three major forces, the Alliance Tribe and Longmian, launched an attack on Icecrown Glacier from six directions at the same time.

The first one to start the attack was Balagad Fortress on the high mountain just west of Icecrown Glacier. After the alliance captured this place, they took advantage of the floating fortress' mobility, overwhelming force, and top-level combat power to capture the Kurgala Fortress further east.

Then it took half the winter to strengthen the two forts and fortresses, and more than 500 modern artillery pieces were placed on them, the smallest of which had a caliber of 203mm.

As soon as nine o'clock arrived, together with a total of 2,000 artillery pieces on Naxxramas, they poured cannonballs on Koretha, the Gate of Terror in the east and the Dark Cathedral in the southeast.

In just three hours, more than 50,000 large and small caliber artillery shells were fired. Although they could not destroy the fortress-level ice shield and the Gate of Fear, which was 30 meters thick and 100 meters high, they succeeded in destroying the dark mage who cultivated it. Most of the Dark Cathedral was flattened, and the huge semicircular dome was flattened.

On the Wintergrasp fortress in the southwest, everything was quiet. The Alliance will not attack from this side. After all, the northeast side of Wintergrasp is Icecrown Fortress. But only a fool would choose to attack a castle on a mountain more than a thousand meters higher than Wintergrasp from a place with an elevation angle of 70 degrees.

The really lively fight was in the Crystalsong Forest in the southeast, and Dalaran was the first to appear.

Dalaran, with Kael'thas personally in charge, was not directly on the front line to withstand the Scourge's anti-aircraft artillery. After all, Dalaran is first the capital of an Alliance kingdom, then a magical sanctuary, and finally a fortress. It is a completely different concept from Naxxramas, a floating fortress that flies around the world to cause trouble.

Destroying any one of the mage towers in the floating city of Dalaran is enough to make the mages heartache for a long time.

So Dalaran's role this time is that of support.

It flew to an altitude of three thousand meters, and then... poured mud downwards.

right! It’s just filling the river!

The most gentle mountain pass of the Icecrown Glacier Plateau Defense Line happens to be the source of the River of Debility.

Thousands of tons of soil were dumped, filling up the source of the River of Debility in just one hour.

Almost as soon as the river filling was completed, the floating city of Dalaran began to lower its height, pouring magic cannons towards the [Iron Wall Dam] guarding the mountain pass, since the dam was also a fortress.