Chapter 330: Duke of Ghost Conspiracy (Part 1)

Duke didn't try to stop the trolls from joining the Horde.

It was a waste of effort.

It was almost an absolute inevitability for the trolls to join the Horde. In Azeroth 14,000 years ago, the native trolls of Azeroth established many large kingdoms, among which the two empires of Amani and Gurubashi had the largest territory, and these two empires They are all under the rule of the Zandalari tribe, so they also praise the Dalar Empire.

Seven thousand years ago, Dath'Remar* Sunstrider led the elf nobles who wanted to continue to study and use arcane magic, and left their fellow night elves with druid natural teachings as the core, accepted exile and moved eastward to the territory of the Eastern Kingdom The northern continent, commonly known as the Lordaeron continent.

These high elves who migrated to the east evolved into high elves and established their own magic kingdom, Quel'Thalas. As a new immigrant country, Quel'Thalas and the local troll Amani Empire began a war that lasted thousands of years because of the expansion of the country.

Until 2800 years ago, humans began to rise. Emperor Thoradin united the human tribes and established the Arathor Empire. The kingdom of Quel'Thalas of the high elves lost to the Amani Empire of the trolls. In desperation, they asked humans for help and began to teach Humans use the power of arcane magic.

Arathor and the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas cooperated to completely defeat the Amani Empire of the trolls, and the group of trolls fell into a slump, and the troll war came to an end.

It can be said that trolls have a grudge against humans and elves that has been passed down for thousands of years. The blood and souls of each other were poured on this continent in the fierce battle, and the hatred was already so strong that it could not be resolved at all.

And there are too many troll clans, even if Duke got rid of the Amani clan in advance, there are as many other clans as stars on this continent,

For example, the Zandalari tribe in Stranglethorn Vale today, they are the ancestors of all trolls, also known as primitive trolls, in general, there are five types of trolls, in addition to primitive trolls, there are jungle trolls, forest trolls, Desert trolls, frost trolls, there are many branches, large and small, according to their attributes.

Small branches such as Sandfury, Bingbin, Xiezhi, Bloodtop, and Skull Splitting are ignored. There are seven or eight big clans at the Amani level alone.

Instead of letting Orgrim form an alliance with the messy trolls, it's better to leave it to Amani, at least Duke can speculate on their marching route.

Of course, before dealing with Orgrim's elite army and trolls, Duke has one more big thing to do.

The troops covering Stormgard withdrew to Stromgarde and Thoradin's Wall.

The most feared thing in retreat is collapse. Once the troops acting as the rear guard are wiped out, it is entirely conceivable to imagine the following scenario:

The green torrent representing the Horde orcs and the silver representing the Kingdom of Stormgard intersected throughout the Arathi Highlands, and the bitter silver was chased by green from all directions. The human army, which was severely lacking in means of transportation, was torn apart by the orcs rushing up from all directions in the plain battle.

After fighting for so long, the Alliance and the Horde have already played real fire.

It is conceivable that if the retreat fails, not many people will be spared. Orcs with better stamina will catch up to every human who tries to escape, and kill them most cruelly.

No prisoners, no mercy, and very few soldiers make it back to Stromgarde alive.

The Arathi Highlands where Stromgarde is located are not fertile, and the characteristics of the plateau and mountains limit the output of food and the upper limit of the total population.

Of the seven human kingdoms, Stormgard is only more populous than the pure mountain kingdom of Alterac. In a sense, Stormgard is weaker than the Stormwind Kingdom that has lost its territory.

Not to mention anything, at least the fertile Elwynn Forest has fed hundreds of thousands of Stormwind citizens.

The total population of Stormgard is less than 250,000, and it is already the limit of the people of Stromgarde to be able to pull out this 30,000-strong army.

Thoras Trollbane couldn't imagine that if he lost all 50,000 people, including the civilians, on the defense line of the Saddle Bridge, whether Stromgarde would still have a tomorrow.

However, the most capable troops in the alliance are basically the main force of the orcs on the western front, which is dominated by the Warsong clan of Grom* Hellscream.

The biggest support the Stormgardians received was half of the Scarlet Crusade of Lordaeron General Abbendis. Abbendis's men went to Thoradin's Wall to replace the Stromgarde people, allowing Solas to have more of the troops defending Stromgarde.

In addition, there are Duke's mage team and Aurelia's ranger team.

When I heard that Aurelia was worried about domestic accidents and took her subordinates away, if it wasn't for the close relationship between Duke and Aurelia, Solas would have scolded her in public.

"Don't get excited, Admiral Thorbane. I let Alleria go back because I have enough confidence to successfully cover 90% of Stormgard's soldiers back to Stromgarde safely."

Solas was stunned for a full five seconds before he realized that the extremely young deputy commander of the alliance standing in front of him had a more impressive record than the official alliance commander Lothar.

Perhaps Duke has not yet proven himself in offensive warfare, but for defense, for interception, and for evacuating troops under extremely unfavorable circumstances, Duke is definitely an expert among experts.

"Uh, it seems that you can't burn down the entire strait line of defense?" King Solas asked a very funny interrogative sentence.

"Pfft!" Duke laughed, "Sorry, I didn't mean to offend you..."

"Offensive? Arathi people don't care about that bit of etiquette. As long as this group of people can be kept, I will let my son serve as your servant." Solas sold his son without integrity.

Duke still respects the Arathi people with Stromgarde at their core. Stromgarde in the 'history' has endured the natural disaster of the undead. With only 3,000 people left in the entire kingdom, no one gave up. They fought hard in various areas of the Arathi Highlands, announcing to the tribe and all invaders With their own struggle and unyielding.

"No, no, no, I'm not shameless enough to ask His Royal Highness to be my attendant." Although doing so will undoubtedly make Duke feel that he is full of power: "In fact, I have always advocated the minimum sacrifice In exchange for the greatest victory."

"Okay, Your Excellency Deputy Commander Marcus, what are you going to do?" Thoras paused for a moment, still feeling that he wanted to give Duke a little sweetness: "If you succeed, you will undoubtedly become a hero in the hearts of the people of Stromgarde .I think there will be no less than a hundred Knights of Stromgarde who admire your reputation and will willingly become your followers."

100 quasi-knights doesn't sound like much.

But considering that there are a total of one hundred low-level nobles who are very capable of fighting and can help manage their fiefs, the weight is much heavier.